Behaviour management

44 videos

Preparing for Down Time

In this example the instrumental specialist teacher must tune 30 instruments.

Choir Warm Up: Me Moo Ma

This classroom practitioner has developed a large school choir in a diverse school.

Choir Warm Up: Articulation

This classroom practitioner develops the choir warm up further into articulation.

Action Songs

Encouraging an extra-curricular group must involve an element of fun.

Building Confidence and Participation

This classroom practitioner is in the early stages of building a school choir.

Musical Elements Starter

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

Focused Listening

This classroom practitioner uses Saint Saen’s Carnival of the animals to scaffold a composition lesson.

Technology & Composition

This teacher utilises the capabilities of Logic for this Y8 composition lesson.

Behaviour Management

Music, as a subject based in sound, requires teachers to have strategies for managing behaviour including starting/st...

Exit Strategies

Finishing a lesson can be a tool for learning and review.

Listen & Appraise Starter

Encouraging listening children identify instruments in Baroque style piece.

Performing rhythmic motifs: a reflection

A teacher reflects on embedding rhythm and pulse.

Listen & Appraise Starter Develops

Listening to an organ piece, children recap their knowledge of tempo.

Performing rhythmic motifs

Chime bars are used to perform rhythms created from food names.

Performance concentrating on rhythm

Using a simple tune and lyric, children explore tempo and feel pulse.

Connecting Physically with Singing

In this Y8 classroom music lesson the teacher takes the class through a series of vocal warm up activities which conn...

Musical Elements Starter 2

Before this composition lesson begins, the class are focused on a starter activity linking musical elements to defini...

Listening & Feedback 1

Listening to student compositions is, in itself, a critical skill for teachers to develop.

Listening & Feedback 2

Listening to student compositions is, in itself, a critical skill for teachers to develop.

A Professional Relationship with Students

This teacher discusses her approaches to extracurricular music and the emerging deepening relationships that are form...

Peer Assessment 2

This teacher comments on the usefulness of peer feedback.

Cultivating Extracurricular Music

This student recounts her experience in participating in the extracurricular offer at the school.

Vocal Starters. Loosen up and begin.

Vocal specialist shows how to start a vocal session.

Vocal Starters. 'Old King Kong' commentary

Vocal specialist explains rationale behind using this expressive song

Vocal Starters. 'Three Bears' Commentary.

Vocal specialist explains this song can be taught effectively to all ages.

EYFS: Nursery rhymes & actions

I'm a little teapot and the 'ABC' song, pulse and actions.

EYFS: Commentary

Teacher reflection on first steps in EYFS music.

Y4 whole class brass, video explains loud and soft

Looking at loud and quiet, long and short notes.

Vocal Starters. 'Old King Kong'

Encouraging participation requiring strong vocal line from children.

A vocal specialist on teaching vocal starters

Vocal specialist makes the case for teaching vocal starters.

EYFS: The Name Game

Children respond to the name song, singing their own name to the backing.

Y4 whole class brass, warm up

Using Charanga, class warm-up buzz, put their mouthpiece in play.

EYFS: Finding the pulse

Listening for a heartbeat/pulse, Reception play along on woodblocks.

Vocal Starters. 'Three Bears' complete song.

Forensic look at the detail of teaching a role song.

Y4 whole class brass, set up

Set up and introduction establishes clear expectations and routines.

Y4 whole class brass develop their performance ...

Managing a mini plenary, homework and packing instruments away.

Y4 sing 'Three Little Birds' for dynamic plenary

Singing at end of brass lesson to internalise piano and forte.

Y5 trombone warm up and breathing

Warm up, mouthpiece and playing two notes to start a lesson.

Y4 brass lesson reflections from teacher.

A specialist visiting teacher on a lesson for brass novices

Learning brass instruments in KS2.

Whole class teaching to take first steps with a brass instrument.

Staves and instrument management in KS2

Revising notation finger game manages distribution of instruments in year 5.

Y5 managing progress with practice diaries

Completing a successful lesson, diaries are filled in.

Learning brass instruments, transferrable skills

KS2 sometimes change instruments as skills evolve. This is encouraged.

Behaviour Management

In this Djembe class lesson, the teacher offers the use of independent practice time for the class to explore solo rh...