This is the first post in the new series: “What I Can’t Teach Without.” While there are many great gadgets and gizmos that I can’t teach without (my recommendations forthcoming), those gadgets would be nothing without solid pedagogy behind them. […]
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These days, I know that teachers are feeling the crunch of the difficult financial times. With all the wonderful piano teaching blogs available, it’s easy to have a million studio ideas, but not know what is most worthy of our
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Remember the highlighter tape that I’ve raved about and recommended before? Well, Art from the Avid Aviator site has let me know that he now has an entire site devoted to highlighter tape now called HighlighterTapes.com. The tape we love
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Well, we are nearing Christmas and also the end of the year when we try to take advantage of tax deductions for teaching supplies. I recently started a “teacher wish list” or “studio wish list and thought it would be
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Last week, I shared the form my students use to record the titles of their Practically Perfect Performance Pieces. Today, I thought I’d share the form that we use for their WTL pieces. These are pieces that they “want to
I’ve had several teachers ask what the PPPPiece is that I refer to at the bottom of the new Assignment Journal. It stands for “Practically Perfect Performance Pieces” and each of my students have received a chart to put at
I’ve been thinking for months now about how the perfect assignment journal for my students would look. As usual, it took much longer to make it than I anticipated, but I’m very excited with the results and wanted to share
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You might remember this interview with Karen Harrington about year ago. Karen is the author the Piano Teachers Resource Kit an excellent set of fun worksheets that can be reproduced for your studio. I have copied almost every page in
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I am a firm believer in finding the right word to coax a correct response from my students. It is so easy to fall into a rut in using the same words again and again to describe staccato (“short and jumpy”)
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How to Revolutionize Rhythm in Your Studio
Learn how this rhythm curriculum gets rhythm IN students' bodies so it comes OUT in ALL their music! See why "It’s the best resource out there for teaching rhythms" and get your students "exponentially improving!"
