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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Subscribe‘Carol of the Bells’: a Christmas resource
KS 3 KS 4
If you’re looking for a good jumping-off point for Christmas season creative work and music making with your students, a good choice would be ‘Carol of the Bells’ (‘Shchedryk’).
Christmas music for visiting music teachers
VMT
In this resource I will be looking at how we can incorporate Christmas music into our teaching.
AQA GCSE AoS4: Malcolm Arnold and Benjamin Britten
KS 4 Secondary education
For the second strand in AoS4 of its GCSE specification, AQA has brought together four influential and very different British composers from the 20th and 21st centuries: Malcolm Arnold, Benjamin...
OCR AoS 1 prescribed work 2024: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
KS 5
The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work for OCR’s AoS1 for examination in 2024, and should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this...
Sightreading
VMT
In this resource, Maxwell will explore the benefits of strong sightreading and look at how we can demystify it, recast it in a positive light, and integrate it into our teaching – rather than...
Approaches to composing at KS3
KS 3
Composition is one of the crucial components of any music curriculum. Students need to be given the opportunity to compose, and the guidance to succeed. They also need to see how composition links in...
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1960s
KS 4 KS 5
Last month, we began the latest part of our wider listening series, exploring the diversity of pop music in the second half of the 20th century, decade by decade. We looked at four specific genres of...
Pre-U topic C4: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
KS 5 Secondary education
In this resource, we’ll look at Rhapsody in Blue’s origins, its stylistic influences, its musical features, and its array of chameleon-like, shapeshifting versions.
Playing with expression
VMT Extra-curricular music
How can we approach teaching so that musical understanding develops hand in hand with technique? Is it even possible to teach expressive playing, or is there an ‘x-factor’ that is innate in only a...
Developing wider listening: pop music of the 1950s
KS 4 KS 5 Secondary education
Now that wider listening is such a key part of the exam boards’ music specifications, students taking GCSE and A level music need to have a broad understanding of a range of musical styles in addition...