The Nuts and Bolts of Behaviour in the Music Room | The Secondary Music Teaching Series
Added to website 03/07/2025. Updated 09/07/2025.
In her 2025 Webinar, Jenetta Hurst covers managing behaviour and getting the best out of your students in the secondary school classroom.
This session recording looks at the theory of classroom management, the realities of managing behaviour in practice, what happens when things go wrong and how to use the power of engagement whilst aligning with your school behaviour policy.
Indeed, there is a common assumption that one must control a class before one can teach it. This, we shall argue is a fallacy for it is through the effective teaching of the subject that pupils can be induced to behave well. Many of the causes of misbehaviour can be pre-empted if the music lesson is: well-planned; well prepared with, for example, stimulating resources; interesting; suitably differentiated; musical.
Philpott, C [Ed]., 2001, p 70
Below you will also find a recommended reading list on this topic, as well as a PDF version of a summary document.
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About Jenetta
Jenetta Hurst is a music specialist, flautist and school leader with 19 years’ experience leading secondary music in a range of settings. Jenetta sits on the Strategic Board of Lambeth Sounds Music Education Hub and is an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Conservatoire.
You can connect with Jenetta directly via her website as well as view blogs, past projects and creative interviews with a range of practitioners at The Creative Educator website.
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We are a membership organisation, Subject Association, and an Arts Council England Investment Principles Support Organisation (IPSO) advocating for excellent musical learning in and out of school.
