Use this HSC Music 1 Aural exercise, with online listening activities and useful prompts, as a stand-alone Year 12 revision lesson (also useful for relief lesson) or take the opportunity to work one-on-one with your Preliminary students as they work to deepen their understanding of the music concepts. Guided questions with prompts differentiate the activity to reinforce their listening practise. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers  The Proficient Standards underpin processes for full registration and accreditation as a teacher and support the requirements of nationally consistent teacher registration. Professional Practice: 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 3.2.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning. 3.3.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking. 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

Great way to meet the HSC requirements and verify student work! Use the word document as a combination of tips for composing, guide for independent research, and a process checklist for ongoing development of skills. Students add in their drafts and annotate changes as they go...simply scan the finished portfolio pages for a record of their work - you can use the work sample to update/provide evidence for your own Teacher PD NESA profile as well! BTW! ......Music 1 Composition Focus Program “Methods of Notating Music” is also available on TES and provides all the learning material and links to assist the delivery of a successful 10 week unit of work. An Assessment rubric is included and makes assessing the wide range of abilities and results easy and fair. Links to free notation software and exercises to assist student learning are included as well. A perfect package!

Using links to free internet resources and on-line tutors - students can work at their own pace and enjoy success! Some short written activities check understanding and make this resource indispensable for busy teachers. Once you introduce the sites - it leaves you free to move amongst students and help them with technique and progress. All the materials are scaffolded to meet the needs of beginners and more ‘able’ students. They can map their progress.

Easy to modify or add to this detailed program. Too busy to deliver both Pop and Rock music? You can choose to take more time or less using this program. Add your own material, modify the rubrics and let the students know what to expect for their assessment at the end of the module. Educational outcomes are becoming universal in their language and this program can easily meet the expected outcomes for your system. Plain english for everyone to understand - no jargon! Covers Performance, Listening, Composition and Musicology all integrated and referenced. To add to the content - why not download my FREE ppt. on Music Elements? or purchase the 'starter' lesson on the 'Disruptive Elements of Rock music' and see your students enter into the debate on what constitutes real music!

Film music brings to film the basic principles of music: melody, harmony, rhythm, meter, volume, tempo, form, tone colour, and instrumentation. Students will learn through these fun lessons, that music in film gets its power from its ability to tap into our expectations that music follow these principles. Conventions, shared between composers and audiences, means that we gain meaning through the power of association; through repetition, conventions such as brass and horns indicate hero or military scenes and these become ingrained in a culture as a kind of collective musical experience. Film music defines emotion in a film and often it generates it. Does film music always have a function? Students find what works in movie music! This pptx. gives recent examples, text slides for students to take brief notes and excellent, short film clips that illustrate powerful effects. Movie Music Part 1 (of two pptx presentations) gives opportunities for students to understand and explain the mix of two art forms: film and music. Movie Music Part 2 gives projects for students to use what they have learned!

HSC Music 1 course: Lesson has two short music extracts focussing on very specific terms: Melisma, Sequence, Phrasing. The two activities can be set as a 'relief lesson' or as self-paced independent learning while you target students who may need extra help in the classroom. The file can be used as both a printed resource for or use with an electronic copy for students. I simply pass a usb with the file, students copy it to their desktop and off they go! The lesson covers the Syllabus for Aural and Composition. Course topics: An Instrument and It's Repertoire; Music for Small Ensemble; Popular Music. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs 2.6.2Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.

Year 11 or 12 HSC Music 1. Use this HSC Music 1 Aural examination exercise (with structured activities) as a stand-alone lesson (also useful for relief) or take the opportunity to work one-on-one with your students as they work independently through the activities. The worksheets develop: - the ability to discriminate between sounds and to make judgements about their use in a wide range of musical styles, periods and genres. - an understanding of the aural paper, the various question styles and how to write a detailed response in a limited, timed paper. - develop skills meeting both syllabus and examination requirements. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs

Use this lesson many times to help develop skills for recognising, analysing and writing a response for the Music 1 Aural Skills Examination. The question ‘two versions’ requires planning to maximise the writing time and present a clearly written response. Teachers may choose various listening examples for practise and to focus on: • the concepts of music: – duration – pitch – dynamics and expressive techniques – tone colour – texture – structure • the use of technology • music of various cultures • unity, contrast and style NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs

Use this HSC Music 1 Aural examination exercise (with online listening activities) as a stand-alone Year 12 revision lesson (also useful for relief lesson) or take the opportunity to work one-on-one with your Preliminary students as they work to deepen their understanding of the music concepts.  Guided focus questions differentiate the activity to reinforce their listening practise. You can set a variety of listening extracts/examples of contrasting music styles to test student learning and provide practise answering the HSC style question. Use past HSC papers and you tube recording's to further deepen the experience - links provided. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers  Know students and how they learn:  1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs

Year 7/8 students will learn to listen carefully to the film score as they complete a Film Music Review activity. By selecting the 'best' of three short music reviews, they will learn how to write their own. Short sentence starters help the process and students complete the activity by composing their own review. Contributes to achieving the outcome (ACAMUR097) Analyse composers’ use of the elements of music and stylistic features when listening to and interpreting music. The particular elements of Literacy addressed by this content description: - Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing - Comprehend texts - Navigate, read and view learning area texts - Listen and respond to learning area texts - Interpret and analyse learning area texts Text knowledge - Use knowledge of text structures Word Knowledge - Understand music vocabulary Students will: - build on their aural skills by identifying and manipulating rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in their listening - aurally identify layers within a texture

this full program with full lesson guide for 10-week term provides useful links for 'How to Compose Music' , score study, composer reflections, rehearsal tips and guide and importantly - the Assessment rubric - plain english makes the program easy reading and makes the syllabus outcomes come to life. NESA Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Know students and how they learn: 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies to develop engaging teaching activities Know the content and how to teach it 2.2.2 Organise the content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs

What is it in Rock Music that disturbs, for some, our sense of what music should be? Looking at a quote from Robert Palmer, using online resources and youtube links (embedded in the lesson notes), students examine the 'disruptive influences' and Rock music elements through the sensational music of Jimi Hendrix. Use this as an introductory lesson or as a challenge for your students! Listen as they debate the core question of the desire to create cultural change and how this drives creativity in music today! Students are encourages to use music vocabulary to explain what they hear, compare with past music and examine the stylistic elements as they listen and take notes.

This ppt is self timed and is a fun review of key music words and terms. Students may work in pairs or individually to get their answers for each of the 10 second timed slides. May be used several times to reinforce these important Aural Terms. Especially useful to change the pace of a lesson, reintroduce the key terms or check for understanding and recall. Enjoy!

This simple page will enable the substitute teacher to introduce/continue class work. The page outlines important information: Class info, location, lesson type Lesson materials or on-line codes with instructions Special arrangements, assistance available Feedback info for regular teacher. The template allows movement of the ‘red’ markers/circles/arrows to save writing and re-writing information. The word format can be easily edited to add your name, School details etc. and then, printed or emailed if you are unable to attend work. All the best!

Easy to use comment bank - combine more than one to create detailed report comments or keep it simple with strong statements. Commend students for their participation, development or gently admonish for not making their best effort! NESA - Use this resource to meet STANDARD 5 ASSESS, PROVIDE FEEDBACK AND REPORT ON STUDENT LEARNING : 5.2.1 & 5.2.2: Provide timely, effective and appropriate feedback to students about their achievement relative to their learning goals 5.5.2: Report clearly, accurately and respectfully to students and parents/carers about student achievement, making use of accurate and reliable records