Music Mark’s new podcast will dive into important topics and challenges facing the music education sector, speaking to a range of exciting guests and providing you with resources and advice to improve your practice.
This briefing introduces two different aspects of youth voice in instrumental music education: ‘musical voice’ and learner voice’. It is aimed at music teachers and anyone else involved in instrumental music teaching and learning, with a particular focus on classical music.
The groundbreaking Over The Digital Horizon project from Wiltshire Music Connect provides a series of inspirational resources and webinars which explore how digital technology can transform access to musical opportunities. Following the closure of Wiltshire Music Connect, the Over the Digital Horizon content is now available to acccess here on the Music Mark website.
Why Music? from Wiltshire Music Connect, provides a range of resources to explain why music matters to children and young people.
This guide provides ideas and resources around channelling anxiety into positive, effective action, the power of talking about the issue and suggestions for teaching about the climate crisis, as well as providing support for managing the symptoms of anxiety.
The aim of the library is for every young person to have an instrument that meets their interests, abilities and needs, and for teachers to be able to use it effectively in both curriculum and instrumental teaching contexts.
Beatbox Basics is a free 6-part resource from Leicestershire Music, created by local Beatboxer Mr Shay. Covering different beatbox sounds, tips and tricks, Beatbox Basics will provide an exciting introduction into the cutting-edge world of Beatbox, where the only limit is your imagination.
This report is a literature review, thematic analysis of interviews and collection of case studies and considers the challenging lives of refugee children whilst highlighting the impact of singing and music-making and makes recommendations.
This toolkit, by Nancy Evans (BCMG) and Professor Martin Fautley, focuses on the teaching and learning of composing in primary schools and is designed to complement different schemes of work and to give confidence, skills and understanding to music teachers and non-specialist classroom teachers.
Download these free Christmas resources from Music Wild. ‘Working Out Jingle Bells by Ear’ guides instrumental teachers through the process of helping pupils to work out a well-known tune by ear and ‘Christmas Jam’ is a fun activity suitable for beginner instrumentalists, in small groups or ensembles.
