What method books do you use? Why did you decide to use this method? Do you use different methods for different students? When I first started teaching I didn’t have a clue what method to use with my students. All I knew was that I didn’t want to use the ones I grew up on […]
The Best Thing We’ve Done This Spring…
Even though I didn’t really feel like I knew what I was doing yet, I decided to launch into something new as soon as I returned from the MTNA conference. We’ve been doing it for several weeks now and it has been close to revolutionary in my studio! I’ve picked up a variety of improvising […]
Giant-Sized Piano Keyboard
Check out this giant-sized piano keyboard that Laura Lowe made using a bed sheet and permanent markers! I LOVE it! Especially as I work on plans for our pre-piano summer camp, I’m going to keep this in mind and hopefully make one. Don’t you think the little kiddos would have a blast with this?! I […]
Top Ten Reasons to Participate in Student Evaluation Programs
Last weekend, our local association sponsored our annual Music Progressions evaluations. Students are evaluated in performance, keyboard facility, applied theory, rhythm and pulse, sight-reading, written theory, and listening. We call them student evaluations, but in reality we all know that it’s an evaluation for us as teachers, right? Hence, I was inspired to compile this […]
Review of Maestro! the Board Game
You may remember that I was so enthralled with the Maestro! game at the MTNA Conference that I purchased it to use with my students. Well, the opportune time came last Thursday when we had our fifth Briefing Session (a.k.a. group class) of the year. We had some extra time at the end of all […]
Monday Mailbag – Helping Students Take Ownership in their Playing
I should start off first be mentioning that I’m 24 yrs old and my student is a married 38 yr old mother of two. She also happens to be a professional singer/dancer/actress locally here in my city. She basically wanted to learn piano so she can accompany her students (she is a director of the […]
