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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SubscribeTransposition for brass
VMT
It always comes as a surprise to non–musicians – and, indeed, to many musicians – when they’re told that approximately 90% of the time, orchestral trumpeters are not actually playing the notes written...
OCR AoS6: serialism
KS 5
OCR has three works by Berg, Webern and Schoenberg among its suggested repertoire for AoS6, Innovations in Music 1900 to the present day. In this resource, we’ll look into those pieces and put them in...
Edexcel AoS3: wider listening, part 2
KS 4
Last month we looked at the first two of the four pieces of music suggested by Pearson Edexcel for wider listening as part of Area of Study (AoS) 3, Music for Stage and Screen. In this month’s...
‘No-practice’ instrumental lessons
VMT
In an ideal world, our students would bound up to the practice room door exactly two minutes before their allotted lesson time, instruments and books in hand, keen as mustard to demonstrate the fruits...
Marketing your music department
KS 5 KS 4 KS 3
In this resource, we’ll be looking at how you can effectively market your music department. We’ll consider why this is something you should do, and also some of the steps you need to take. We’ll look...
Festive study: ‘White Winter Hymnal’
In the lead up to Christmas, there are a lot of pulls on a music department. Having back-up resources that require limited effort from teachers and yet create rich learning activities with...
Breathing for wind players and singers
VMT
By the time an average ten-year-old first enters my teaching room, they will have taken around 150 million breaths in their lifetime. After 150 million repetitions of something, you’d think you’d be...
Edexcel AoS3: wider listening, part 1
KS 4
Over the past two years, our on-going Developing Wider Listening series has provided resources covering genres and styles from Baroque times to the present day, including several that are specifically...
Group instrumental teaching in special education
VMT
The revised National Plan for Music Education’s stipulation that students in all schools – including special education schools. This resource begins by grounding our work within the social model of...
Online escape room games and low-stakes quizzing
KS 3 KS 4 KS 5
Low-stakes testing is considered a good tool in our repertoire, allowing us to understand what progress students have made and what needs consolidation before moving on. Exploring content when it’s...