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

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

The periodic direction from the class teacher helps to scaffold this composition lesson so that the class are focused...

The current lead Ofsted HMI for Music, Robin Hammerton writes: "Firstly, pupils’ progress in creating and understandi...

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

This teacher is actively involved in the listening activity. Clear questions have been articulated before the example...

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

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

This school choir begin approaching new repertoire by learning the African words.

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

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

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

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

This brass group was introduced to the beginning of Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

The voice is the most portable instrument we have.

In this Year 6 brass group lesson, it is possible to observe the conditioning of the group.

The outcomes of simple part playing. Rounds are an excellent way to first introduce this to students.

In this group brass lesson the teacher introduces Frere Jacques in stages.

Group teaching offers a excellent opportunity to contextualise learning.

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

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

See Rhythm Game for the first stage of this learning game. In this short clip the teacher extends the level of challe...

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

This teacher questions the class on note lengths relative to the piece they have just played.

Often in whole class teaching, we are required to teach with a more staged approach than we would in small group less...