Piano Teaching Idea Share #1

ComposeCreate Piano Teaching Idea Share 1

At our recent, hope-filled January webinar, we conducted our first ComposeCreate Piano Teaching Idea Share. I asked four questions relevant to piano teaching and teachers put their creative ideas in the chat. I have compiled these questions and answers, creative ideas, and a list of the book recommendations for you to download here:

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Here are the 4 questions that we tackled:

1. What encouraging books are you reading right now?

Here are some very encouraging books* helping me right now:

But so many teachers suggested other amazing books and I’m excited to add many of them to my reading list! All of these and more are included in the Piano Teaching Idea Share #1. There were books on creativity, deep work, gratitude, habits, biographies, and more! I was so excited to have a new set of books that I want to read after I finish these others!

2. What creative recital ideas do you have?

This question is especially relevant this year since traditional recitals are so difficult with quarantines, social distancing, etc.

At the recital, I shared Tammy Prenot’s idea for “Driveway Drive-ups” and you’ll see a big post about that with all the details here in a few weeks! Stay tuned!

3. How are you injecting energy into your lessons right now?

Ugh. Finding energy these days is hard enough. But finding energy to teach kids and get kids excited is even harder! Teachers shared non-game ideas (since games were the next question) like “one-a-days,” an interesting idea about “music from our cultural heritage” in which students choose and play music celebrating both sides of their families, speedy scale competitions, and more!

I shared a fun idea that Angie Morlan, a ComposeCreate teacher, shared. She took our free Snowman Flashcards and glued little magnets to the back of them. During online lessons, she puts nine of them on a magnetic board and shows them to her student. The student then tells her which part of the snowman to put on the board to match. She says that she usually does this in live lessons and just puts the snowmen on the table, timing the student to get all the matches. In live lessons, the students then try to beat their own times. But she adapted this game to use in online lessons to go with her January theme “Do you want to build a snowman?”

ComposeCreate Idea Share #1 - piano teaching ideas

4. What games are you playing right now in online lessons?

This was a fun part of the ComposeCreate Idea Share! Teachers shared all kind of ideas including doing a special wave at the end of the lesson, copycatting, playbacks, tag, rhythm tic-tac-toe, and more.

I shared that we now have Giant Note Name Flashcards available that are the same full page size as our Giant Interval flashcards! Teachers who attended the workshop live or watched the replay got these automatically delivered to their inbox after the workshop. But you can get the Giant Interval Flashcards here.

Download the entire Piano Teaching Idea Share below. And stay tuned for other webinars where we’ll do more of these!

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* These books are Amazon affiliate links which means that I get a tiny cut of the price of the book, but you aren’t charged any more than you would normally be.

5 thoughts on “Piano Teaching Idea Share #1”

  1. Wonderful. I seem to have lost my link to the January webinar. I was able to watch only a portion of it. Is it still available? Barb Knapp

  2. I’m hooked!! …on the PTIS #1. I will not miss the next one. Please let me know when! Thanks from my
    🎹❤️!

  3. Hi Barb,

    Unfortunately, it is no longer available to watch. It expired January 22nd. So sorry!

  4. Sure thing, Marcie! So glad it’s helpful! We’ll do one again probably in the next webinar in February. Stay tuned!

  5. Dear Wendy. I loved the webinar. Thank you for sending me the link to be able to watch it today. I would like to know how I can E-mail music direct from my downloads to my students. You mensioned it but I really don’t know how. Thank you!!
    Gracie Payne.

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