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Building Confidence and Participation
This classroom practitioner is in the early stages of building a school choir.
Scaffolding Composition
The periodic direction from the class teacher helps to scaffold this composition lesson so that the class are focused...
Behaviour Management
Music, as a subject based in sound, requires teachers to have strategies for managing behaviour including starting/st...
Playing Other Instruments
This instrumental brass teacher acknowledges the importance of playing and modelling other brass instruments.
Violin Posture
This instrumental violin teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begi...
Confidence
This instrumental string teacher discusses her approaches to teaching and the connection with confidence
CPD: Instrumental Teachers
This instrumental teacher discusses the support structures available within a music service. Training and CPD are imp...
Brass Basics
This instrumental brass teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begin...
Importance of Performance
This teacher describes the impact performances have had on the school ethos, community and progress of pupils.
Choosing the Instrument
This teacher discusses an approach for students to choose the instrument for them.
Developing Scale Practice
This teacher discusses the rationale behind scale practice offering suggestions on how to incorporate them into warm ...
Why Perform?
This teacher articulates the benefits of performance and the impact they have on young performers.
Professional Isolation
This instrumental teacher discusses the value of forging professional relationships with school colleagues.
Singing for the Non-Specialist
Instrumental teachers are now using their voice more and more in whole class teaching.
Difficult Passages
This teacher offers some advice on strategies for approaching difficult technical passages.
WCIT Variety
This teacher discusses the content of her whole class lessons including the importance of 'brain breaks.'
Keyboard Teaching
This teacher discusses some of the elements of keyboard provision within a music service.
Singing and the Vocal Teacher
This experienced teachers discusses his approach to singing from the starting point that everyone can sing.