Teaching teens is incredibly rewarding – but it can also be exasperating. How should we respond when they make the quick shift from excited child to moody? Will they be chatty and energetic today, or pensive and withdrawn?
As a piano teacher, it can be so difficult to understand why they suddenly don’t practice, where their zest for music has gone, and why you just can’t seem to connect with or motivate them anymore. The new continuing education piano teacher training workshop “Teaching Teens: What Researchers, Therapists and Teens Wish You Knew” is an information-packed workshop that will change your whole perspective! You’ll learn about teens, yourself, and how you can better teach and connect with the teens in your life – from your own children or family members to your students.
What is a continuing education workshop?
A continuing education workshop is a training or class that allows you to continue learning about your particular area of work in a way that makes you even more qualified. And not all continuing education is equal! A quality piano teacher training or continuing education workshop shouldn’t just give you teaching ideas or things to think about – it should be something that truly changes the quality of education that you give your students.
This workshop is packed full of research and science-based ideas and tactics. When you understand the specific needs of teens and their developmental stage, you know why teens behave a certain way, and how they think differently from children or adults. This means you’re able to adapt to what your particular students need in order to give them the best possible music education!
An online workshop is much more cost effective than going to a live conference. Conferences cost money – not only for the conference, but for travel, board, and taking time away from teaching. Going to a multi-day piano teaching conference in 2024 can easily cost $2500-$3000!
But this online workshop can be watched comfortably in your own home, is affordable, and delivers substantial content that is applicable not only to teaching teens piano, but parenting teens, grand-parenting teens, coaching teens or even just interacting with teens. It’s not a workshop about “quick fixes.” This piano teacher training will help give you a deep understand of the needs of teenagers so that you can become wise to figure out the solutions to each unique teen with whom you interact.
Why is this topic so important?
It is vital that piano pedagogy catch up to what the world of research, therapy, and psychology knows about teens. Quick fixes, gimmicks, or a simple motivational tool aren’t going to work for teens – or we’d all be using them! There is so much beauty to be found in discovering what teens are really like (as well as what they aren’t like), and it will fundamentally change how you think about and interact with them.
This piano teacher training will dive deep into the emotional, physical, and social lives of teens. It will help you identify your own experiences and perspectives on teens. And, it will help you put all of that information together in a way that will make you a much better teacher, parent, or or grandparent to the teens in your life.
Here’s what Wendy had to say:
This workshop may be my most helpful contribution yet to piano pedagogy! I can’t believe the impact this knowledge has already made in my own interactions with teens – especially with my own teenage kids. I don’t claim to be an expert parent or teacher, but the information I’ve put together from these real experts has been life-changing for me and I know will be the same for teachers.
Wendy Stevens
What will I learn?
Wendy interviewed therapists who specialize in working with teens to create this workshop. They are the most knowledgeable professionals on the topic, and are in the trenches daily with teens, learning about what’s going on in their heads and hearts. She also found the most current research on teens, and even got some perspective from teens so that you are getting a well-rounded view.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What we get wrong about teens
- What they’re thinking (but won’t tell you)
- How to get them more likely to share their opinion
- What they need most from us (this one surprised us!)
- Why the way you treat girls specifically matters so, so much
- The unconscious, default thoughts and feelings of early teenagers that can be devastating to their emotional development
- Why we need to change how we talk to teens
- How to stop feeling exasperated with teens
- Music that speaks the language of teens
What’s included in this piano teacher training?
- Access to the live workshop (plan on an hour and fifteen minutes, give or take)
- Q&A session during the live workshop
- Access to the replay for 2 months
- A fill-in-the-blank handout to help you follow along (watch for this in your email the day before the workshop. We’ll also give it to you at the workshop.)
- Professional Development Certificate
We would love to see you there! This is going to be such a life-changing and important workshop, and we can’t wait to hear how it benefits you and your students. Get more information and register today here:
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Teaching Teens: What Researchers, Therapists, and Teens Wish You KnewPrice range: $45.00 through $350.00
