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Teaching materials are an integral part of a music teacher's practice. Every month Music Teacher publishes downloadable materials for KS3, 4 and 5, offering complete units of work, GCSE and A Level set-work guidance, and practical ideas across all levels for both classroom and peripatetic teachers. All materials are written by experienced teachers and examiners and provide indispensable content for your teaching.
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SubscribeOCR AoS1: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23
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Secondary education KS 5 Archive
The aim of this resource is to cover both the usual areas required for examination, as well as offering some more context that might provoke wider exploration beyond the prescribed work and enhance...
Maintaining classroom instruments
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Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Archive
Music departments tend to be full of ‘stuff’ – chances are, the more music there is happening in the school, the more equipment there is. Looking after all of this equipment is likely to fall to...
Activities for the summer term
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Secondary education KS 3 Archive
Below are some one-off lessons and ideas for those times where you find yourself in a room without instruments, with a bank of computers, or missing half the class, any of which can stop your current...
Approaches to classical music
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Secondary education KS 3 Archive
If you’re the kind of music teacher who sees it as part of their mission to open students’ minds and ears to different kinds of music, you may well be thinking about ways in which you can introduce a...
Revising for AS and A level music exams
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Secondary education KS 5 Archive
This is the third of three resources designed to help students revise effectively and positively for this summer's written music exams. The first (Music Teacher, March 2019) was a general resource,...
Revising for GCSE music exams
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Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource is intended to provide activities and ideas for students that will help them to revise effectively for the summer GCSE music exam, and it follows a resource on general strategies for...
Blues
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Secondary education KS 3 Archive
Teaching blues at KS3 has become something of an old chestnut. However, there is a lot of value to be had from including it in your KS3 plans.
The story of the symphony, part 3: from Mahler to the moderns
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Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In part two to this three-part resource (Music Teacher, March 2019, with part one February 2019), we saw how Romantic composers of all creative persuasions, whether nationalist or individualist, took...
The story of the symphony, part 2: Beethoven and his legacy
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Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
In the second of this three-part resource (for part one, see Music Teacher, February 2019), we will be joining the story of the symphony at its heyday in the 19th century, where the form expanded and...
Making revision effective and manageable
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Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive
Revision can be a word with largely negative connotations. For teachers, it can mean producing ‘packs’ and summary resources, going back over old ground with students, and finding innovative ways to...
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