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 time, energy, and money in accomplishing our teaching goals. So, I’ve decided to examine my own studio and teaching and report on the essential tools that I feel I must have to be a good teacher. I’m going to be starting a new series of posts entitled, “What I Can’t Teach Without” and hope that this will benefit you as you make your own decisions about what to buy and invest in for your studio.
Stay tuned…and be thinking about what is essential to your studio!
Excellent question, you have my wheels turning…
Very intriguing topic…. as I started thinking about my own must-haves, I realized that some of my best tools are the ones that required an investment of time and experience, namely a truckload of patience and a good sense of humor!
This is a great topic!
Here’s what I need:
1. The abililty to think outside the box.
2. The ability to explain things from the ground, up.
3. Someone else in the house who has a job to pay the mortgage and electric bill- and cover my health insurance.
4. The ability to remember what if felt like to be a child.
5. To love what I do so much, that it never feels like work.
Thanks for your blog!!
Suzanne
Legos: to teach chord stucture, scale structure, chord inversions, etc, etc, etc.