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Downloadable resources for music teachers

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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Planning a career in music

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jonathan James

How do you start that all-important conversation about a career in music? It's a vast topic. This resource offers some tried and trusted pathways into exploring the music industry, giving ideas on how...

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AQA GCSE AoS2: Popular Music - wider listening

Secondary education KS 4 Archive

Author: John Kelleher

This resource focuses on providing ideas for both repertoire and teaching for Area of Study 2 (popular music). When AQA launched the first draft of its new specification, it also issued a press...

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Context in the new GCSEs – part 2

Secondary education KS 4 Archive

Author: John Kelleher

In July 2016's Music Teacher resources, we looked at the new change of assessment objectives between the outgoing and the new GCSEs. In this month's resource, we'll continue to explore context and how...

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Building an opera

Secondary education KS 3 Archive

Author: Jane Werry

Why build an opera with your KS3 class? Opera is perhaps one of the styles that students find most off–putting, and about which they probably have the most preconceived ideas – mainly that it's...

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Holiday resource: Jazz thinking

Secondary education KS 4 KS 5 Archive

Author: Jonathan James

This resource is aimed at learners of around Grade 4 and above on any instrument, voice included, either working alone or together. No prior knowledge of jazz theory is required, nor is any...

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Context in the new GCSEs

Secondary education KS 4 Archive

Author: John Kelleher

At first glance, the new GCSE specifications bear a striking resemblance to their predecessors. This resource will help you to understand how the assessment objectives have changed, and will provide...

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Ways into modernism

Secondary education KS 5 Archive

Author: James Jonathan

This resource is designed around how to ask those questions in a way that encourages exploration both during term–time and the holiday period. It should also open up the following, more specific areas...

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Effective conducting

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Extra-curricular music Archive

Author: Jonathan James

Conducting is a constant feature in the lives of almost all music teachers, whether leading an assembly song, guiding a band workshop or rehearsing the school orchestra. The aim of this resource is to...

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Organising a music tour

Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5 Extra-curricular music Archive

Author: Jane Werry

Here, we consider the many decisions that go into planning a tour, and guide you through the preparations and the trip itself. The aim is to anticipate potential problems and head them off before they...

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Developing musical ideas

Secondary education KS 5 Archive

Author: David Ashworth

Music teachers will be very familiar with the challenge of supporting their students in developing musical ideas beyond the initial stages of composition. In this resource we consider some ways in...

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