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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SubscribeAQA AoS1: Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Secondary education KS 4
The third movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 is a study piece for AQA’s GCSE Area of Study 1. The study of this piece will allow students to study not only the Classical style, but...
Getting inside the A level jazz curriculum, part 2: instrumentalists
Secondary education KS 5
For some students, instrumental jazz can seem like black coffee compared to the milkshake of pop. It still has a reputation of being hard to access and appreciate, particularly post-swing. This...
Getting inside the A level jazz curriculum, part 1: jazz vocalists
Secondary education KS 5
This will act as a summary introduction to the subject area, to whet the appetite and start placing the main styles in their contexts, with suggested listening and a playlist. Following the examples,...
Developing wider listening: the Classical period
Secondary education KS 4 KS 5
This is the second in a series of resources to help students develop their understanding and experience of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and from the 20th and 21st centuries....
Leading online composing projects
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns in the UK, I have led several interactive online composition projects. This resource shares practical advice gained from this experience, examining the...
World tour: Middle East
Secondary education KS 3
This is the fourth stop in our World Tour series, which began over a year ago and has so far visited the Caribbean, Latin America and China. This month we explore some of the vast and diverse...
Teaching great music lessons in the ‘new normal’
Secondary education KS 3 KS 4
This resource aims to give you some ideas for teaching great music lessons, whether remotely, through a ‘blended’ approach, or even back in the classroom – whenever that might be.
Orchestration at A level
Secondary education KS 5
Rimsky-Korsakov, a Romantic Russian composer and inspirational orchestrator, said that ‘to orchestrate is to create; it cannot be taught’. Let’s hope he was wrong, at least on that last point.
Exploring rhythm
Secondary education KS 3
This resource looks closely at rhythm from both ends – the aural, non-notated, knowledge-of-music end; and the notation-based, knowledge-about-music end. Ideas for unpicking rhythm including learning...
From tab to score: teaching student guitarists how to read music
VMT
There’s no denying the fact that there are a lot of guitarists who can’t read music. (I’d like to stress that this is focused more on electric or acoustic guitarists, rather than ones who are...