Megan has set up a wonderful Web Assignments page on her website where she posts a new web assignment for her students each week. The page is set up like a traditional blog, so you can subscribe to the RSS feed or, better yet, have your students subscribe to the RSS feed and complete the […]
Teaching
Ten Killer Tactics for Developing a New Skill
Trent of The Simple Dollar Blog has an excellent post, outlining Ten Killer Tactics for Developing a New Skill. I know many teachers want to develop skills related to other areas of interest, but find themselves so busy with the responsibilities of the many hats that they wear that it’s hard to know how to […]
Technique Achievement Poster
Check out this new Technique Achievement Poster that D’Net designed! This would be a great alternative to placing individual Scale Charts in each student’s assignment book. I think it would be especially motivating to see the progress posted on the studio wall!
Helping Students Learn Musical Terms
Last Thursday evening we held our fifth Olympic Event of the year (The Olympic Events are part of my practice incentive this year, which is titled “Go For the Gold.” After the year is over, I’ll compile all the materials and add it to my selection of practice incentive programs available for purchase.). My objective […]
Survey Question #3
Following is the third installment of the Survey Question idea I’m using in my studio this Spring. If you could automatically improve one area of your piano skills, what would it be? * Increasing my piano level. * Learning hard pieces. * Sight-reading. * Lesson work. * Romantic sounding pieces. * Sight-reading. * Sight-reading. * […]
Survey Question #2
My students seem to really be enjoying the survey questions! Here’s the second question I asked, followed by all the responses I received: What’s the most helpful technique you’ve learned in piano lessons? * Playing one hand at a time. * Putting your weight into the keys instead of playing all with your fingers. * […]
