This teacher talks about the characteristics, playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critic...

Mick Waters considers the place of rote learning in education and its strengths and limitations.

Mick Waters on successful schools and school improvement.

Purpose, process and audience.

Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.

An Early Years teacher defines learning outcomes.

Why don't we assess across a broad curriculum and acknowledge that learning is complex and uneven?

What is the starting point in planning learning?

Less focussed on outcomes than process, this teacher believes that learning from mistakes helps to build resilience a...

Completing a successful lesson, diaries are filled in.

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

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

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

Managing a mini plenary, homework and packing instruments away.

Playing 'piano' and 'forte'. Crescendo is played too.

Looking at loud and quiet, long and short notes.

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

Set up and introduction establishes clear expectations and routines.

Teacher reflection on first steps in EYFS music.

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

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

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

This experienced Head of Brass discusses his approaches to teaching the essential elements of brass instruments.

This instrumental brass teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begin...

This brass teacher discusses her experiences of the job and its rewards.