What makes you really excited? Studying music history? Sight-reading new repertoire? Dreaming up game ideas? Improvising arrangements of familiar tunes by ear? Capitalize on your own area of interest to build the enthusiasm of your students. Invest your excitement into putting together creative assignments for your students. For example, plan a group class around composers […]
Inspirational
Reigniting Enthusiasm – Examine your Expectations
One of the driving motivations in life is to increase my knowledge and skills and strive for excellence in all that I do. While these qualities reflect some of my core values, I realized several years ago that I was running myself into the ground because I was expecting more of myself than I could […]
Monday Mailbag – Re-igniting Enthusiasm!
Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you had a marvelous Christmas season and are ready for a new year of teaching. I didn’t get nearly as much done as I had hoped, but I think I’ll be saying that the rest of my life! Today’s Monday Mailbag question is perfect for the […]
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
I’m off this week in my studio and decided to take a week off from blogging as well. Hopefully I can tackle all the things that I’ve been adding to my list of oh-I-can-just-wait-and-do-that-during-my-week-off. 🙂 I’ll leave you with a beautiful quote that some friends sent me recently: “Next to the Word of God, the […]
The Cactus Cuties Sing the National Anthem
Wow! Just wow! HT: J.Pisano
Amazing 6-Year Old Pianist and Composer
Have you seen or heard about Emily Bear? My sister told me about her several weeks ago, but I forgot to check out the links until just recently. Start off by watching this inspiring news story: Here’s another video I found that has a compilation of many of her original compositions: One thing that inspires […]
