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10 Top Tips for Whole Class Teaching
This Head of Service offers some advice for teachers working with whole classes.
Communication with Parents
This experienced teacher discusses the importance of communication with parents.
Setting Expectations
This experienced teacher discusses her approach to setting expectations for her pupils in a Suzuki violin lesson.
Suzuki Method in Schools
This teacher has 35 years’ experience using the 'Suzuki' method and is also a teacher trainer. She discusses her wor...
Facilitating Creativity
This teacher talks us through her approach to her role in the context of her Y9 composition lesson.
Professional Isolation and the Visiting Teacher
This experienced teacher offers some advice on the relationship between the visiting instrumental teacher and the sch...
Relationship with Schools
This experienced teacher discusses aspects of the relationship between the school and the visiting instrumental teach...
Teaching WCIT
This teacher discusses the pedagogy, content, challenges and solutions of whole class teaching.
Brass: Air
This experienced Head of Brass discusses his approaches to teaching the essential elements of brass instruments.
Singing and the Vocal Teacher
This experienced teachers discusses his approach to singing from the starting point that everyone can sing.
Keyboard Teaching
This teacher discusses some of the elements of keyboard provision within a music service.
WCIT Variety
This teacher discusses the content of her whole class lessons including the importance of 'brain breaks.'
Difficult Passages
This teacher offers some advice on strategies for approaching difficult technical passages.
Singing for the Non-Specialist
Instrumental teachers are now using their voice more and more in whole class teaching.
Professional Isolation
This instrumental teacher discusses the value of forging professional relationships with school colleagues.
Why Perform?
This teacher articulates the benefits of performance and the impact they have on young performers.
Developing Scale Practice
This teacher discusses the rationale behind scale practice offering suggestions on how to incorporate them into warm ...
Choosing the Instrument
This teacher discusses an approach for students to choose the instrument for them.
Importance of Performance
This teacher describes the impact performances have had on the school ethos, community and progress of pupils.
Brass Basics
This instrumental brass teacher discusses the importance of establishing correct posture and instrument hold in begin...