The units

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  Structuring learning for musical understanding

  This is about how to plan units of work. It explores how to develop pupils’ learning through a focus on musical understanding, and how this learning is informed by contexts, knowledge of musical conventions and the development of skills through practical music making.

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  Structuring learning for musical engagement

  This is about how to plan individual lessons. It explores how to exploit appropriate learning objectives, a range of teaching strategies and effective sequences of learning so that pupils’ engagement with music is at the heart of all lessons.

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  Creative teaching and learning in music

  This is about how to make musical learning and teaching more creative. It explores how to use inventive teaching strategies that result in pupils thinking and making music more imaginatively and more independently.

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  Modelling in music

  This is about how to use modelling strategies to support pupils’ learning. It explores how the thought processes that lie behind effective musical learning can be revealed, enabling pupils to understand that how they learn is as important as what they learn.

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  Challenge in music

  This is about how to provide pupils with appropriate types and degrees of challenge. It explores thinking skills, the need for quality, depth and breadth of learning, the importance of musical vocabulary and how to support pupils with extensive prior musical learning.

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  Feedback in music

  This is about how to develop a specific aspect of Assessment for Learning (AfL). It explores key principles of AfL and the way that pupils’ musical learning can be supported by appropriate oral, aural and written feedback from different people.

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