Modern instrumental lessons provide limited capacity to hear, revise and monitor scale practice.

Children are encouraged to respond to a question in contrasting voices.

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

Using a simple tune, these young players concentrate on reading the music.

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

This teacher's assessment model is measured in statements constructed with the beginning "I can". The approach is to ...

In this y9 lesson the teacher uses questioning and clear prompts to help scaffold and collate ideas for a composition...

In this Year 9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.

In this y9 lesson the class are working in groups to write a song from the stimulus 'Orange'.

After working in groups, this Year 9 group return mid lesson to explain the reasoning behind their musical choices.

The plenary in this Year 9 lesson encourages the students to assess themselves in 2 clear areas.

This Rhythm game is an excellent assessment for learning tool. The teacher can see visually if the class are beginnin...

Working with larger groups can unveil some simple problems in the pedagogy of how to approach giving instructions.

In this group brass lesson the teacher uses a backing track on a repeated cycle to stage the preparation for performa...

Group teaching offers a excellent opportunity to contextualise learning.

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

In this intermediate clarinet lesson, the teacher models her musical expectations by performing to the student.

Scale practice is an important way to develop technique and tuning.

In this short clip, the student exhibits a good saxophone embouchure - flattening the bottom lip, teeth on top, with ...

Encouraging listening children identify instruments in Baroque style piece.

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

Using food names, children improvise rhythms.

Linking instruments and characters.

Inspired by the music, children create chants for each character.

Children, conducted by the teacher, perform chants as a whole class.