Teaching Music

Delighted with the Expo launch of my new resource published by Rhinegold Education. It is called “Teaching Music” and, by way of a preview, here is the Introduction:

Continuing professional development (CPD) is of vital importance for all teachers, and yet we know how difficult it can be to find the time and funding to access CPD opportunities. Teaching Music aims to help solve this problem by acting as a rich resource for your ongoing CPD: jam-packed with practical ideas, addressing ‘hard to teach’ areas and providing support for extra-musical matters such as behaviour management and assessment.   Rather than providing complete, prescriptive schemes of work, Teaching Music is focused on bite-sized practical ideas and advice that can be used to revitalise your existing schemes of work. This gives you the flexibility to pick and choose the ideas that will best suit you and your students, and doesn’t require you to overhaul your whole curriculum. We hope that this flexibility will give Teaching Music a wide appeal: while it has primarily been written for KS3, much of the advice and ideas can be tailored to all levels of classroom music making.

While significant developments in technology have been made in recent years, it is probably fair to say that the classroom has not always been so quick to catch up. If you feel unaware of the multitude of ways in which technology can support and enhance your teaching, then Teaching Music will certainly be able to help. But we hope that Teaching Music is also forward-thinking in other ways, reflecting as it does recent advice from some of our best music teachers and a range of leading bodies and authorities in music education. Throughout the book we have tried to present advice and ideas that are truly up-to-date (but that will hopefully be of value for many years to come!).

The ‘forward-thinking’ spirit that we have tried to encapsulate in this resource is reflected in the way it is presented, as an interactive ebook. Of the various features that this allows (such as hyperlinks, a search function, the ability to bookmark pages and so on), perhaps the most exciting is the embedded videos. Teaching Music contains over 60 videos that illustrate some of the ideas and advice mentioned in the text, helping to bring the activities to life.  

Teaching Music includes contributions from some of the best classroom music teachers in the country: teachers with considerable experience and lots of great ideas to share. It is very much a book for teachers by teachers, and we hope that their expertise and enthusiasm will continue to inspire you in your own teaching.

If you would like a free sample from the resource, you can  download the app from here: http://www.rhinegoldeducation.co.uk/download-the-app/