This resource addresses why students get nervous in performing, and gives strategies for teachers to help them build confidence.
Richard Steggall Examinations
In this resource, we’ll look at three works in Edexcel’s 'suggested pieces of other music' and ‘other perspectives’ lists for its KS5 AoS1 on vocal music: a song by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, the...
Richard Barnard Choral
This resource considers a range of strategies for teaching the context and processes of Poulenc's style, before, during and after the teaching of the movement itself.
Jane Werry Classical
In this resource, we look at strategies to help teachers manage their heavy workload in such a way that it doesn't damage their health and wellbeing.
Dice Wood Health & Wellbeing
In this resource, we’ll look at the tools to bring mindful practice into the music classroom and also consider its application in day-to-day life as well as in music, with some specific lesson ideas.
Chris Woods Teaching Materials
In this resource, we’ll look at two works in Edexcel’s GCSE AoS4, ‘Fusions’, and explore teaching and learning ideas. We’ll go deep into the harmony of Esperanza Spalding’s ‘Samba em prelúdio’, and...
David Guinane Teaching Materials
This resource aims to provide some more contextual information and suggest some wider listening, with which the teacher and student can engage in order to develop understanding of the Baroque solo...
Hanh Doan Teaching Materials
This resource will focus on three iconic pieces from the first half of the 20th century, listed in OCR’s Area of Study 6 (Innovations in music 1900-present day): Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
Conducting a choir can be a daunting task for a whole-class or instrumental/vocal teacher. It’s common to be uncertain about keeping a clear beat, and how to coordinate using both hands, face and...
Jenna Brown Teaching Materials
Buzzwords can be a real turn-off for teachers – particularly practitioners who have been in the classroom for a long time. Fads come and go, and as the next excited colleague stands up with a ‘fix’...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
Haydn is sometimes referred to as the ‘father of the symphony’, and this prescribed work comprises two movements from the penultimate of his extraordinary output of 104 within the form. Students will...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Some class teachers and parents fear that, in coming out of class lessons for their instrumental tuition, children may be missing out on important academic material.
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials