Handbook for the Music Department CD-ROM

Subject: Music
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14-16
Order Number: 11066

This handbook is a must have mine of important information for classroom music teachers. It is in the form of a complete and ready template which comes for the teacher to adjust to his or her own requirements. Set out in sections which are clear and concise, it covers every aspect of running a modern and progressive music department.

The areas which are covered include:

• Accommodation and resources
• Staff deployment and development
• Department policies and procedures, including
• Curriculum and courses
• Learning and teaching
• Discipline and pupil support
• Understanding learning difficulties
• Dealing positively with challenging behaviour
• Lesson planning
• Classroom management and long-term planning
• Applying sanctions
• Situations to avoid
• Meeting with verbal aggression
• Assessment and recording
• Reporting to parents
• Links with other department
• Links with senior management
• Self-review arrangements

This resource deals in detail with matters relating to classroom discipline and support, together with the positive application of sanctions. This section of the document is set out in response to the many requests to the author by classroom music teachers for help with positive ways forward in today’s challenging classroom environment. This section may not be necessary in certain teaching situation, and may be omitted if wished.

With the minimum of adjustment, the handbook template will produce an excellent document for use with all departmental colleagues in the modern and cutting-edge music department.