Online Teaching Materials
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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SubscribeEssay-writing skills at A level
Secondary education KS 5
This resource looks at essay-writing skills and offers tips on how to approach essay writing with your students. It also works through some ideas that will support different exam boards. It is...
Preparing students for composing coursework
Secondary education KS 4
This resource examines some strategies for compositional groundwork, and offers tips for avoiding some of the most common pitfalls, as well as some ideas for getting students started.
OCR AoS2: Nat King Cole's After Midnight
Secondary education KS 5
This resource explores the breadth of Nat King Cole's artistry and his influence, as well as appraising the four songs OCR have selected from his album After Midnight.
Revision for GCSE and A level music
KS 4 KS 5 AS A2
This resource follows on from the excellent revision resources in Music Teacher magazine that ran in March, April and May 2019. Here, a range of revision strategies will be discussed that can be used...
OCR AoS1: Beethoven's Violin Concerto, first movement
KS 5 AS A2
In 2020, the year marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, OCR A level students are lucky enough to be studying a work by that composer.
AQA AoS1: the orchestral music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This topic is part of Area of Study 1 for AQA GCSE music and includes a ‘study piece’: the second movement of Haydn's Clock Symphony (covered in its own resource, Music Teacher, November 2017)....
Steve Reich
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 Archive
The activities covered in this resource can be adapted for use across all key stages in secondary schools. They are particularly relevant for supporting GCSE and A level study and, indeed, most...
Haydn's Symphony No. 94 ‘Surprise’
Secondary education IB
Haydn's ‘Surprise’ Symphony is one of the International Baccalaureate's prescribed works for 2020-2021 and will feature in the listening paper. Students will have to answer questions about the...
AQA AoS4: Orchestral music of Copland
Secondary education KS 4
Picture the following Hollywood scene: a hero has fallen, and a faded Stars and Stripes flutters in the breeze as we remember their act of sacrifice for their country. What underscore do you hear?...
AQA AoS1: The Requiem of the late-Romantic period
Secondary education KS 4 Archive
This resource will give a brief overview of the context of the late-Romantic Requiem, followed by detailed analysis of some extracts from three key works.