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Chats, tips and laughs about topics in piano pedagogy, performance, and navigating a career as a teacher.

#1: Finding Your Voice

How and why do we teach? In our very first episode, we start by exploring the joys, frustrations and other formative experiences that come to shape our perspective as teachers.

#2: Teaching Styles

There are five primary teaching styles we can approach our role as educators with. In our second episode, we explore these frameworks, the history of pedagogical philosophies, and how it all comes together in the context of teaching a student a musical instrument.

✎ NOTES:

Baker-Jordan, Martha. Practical piano pedagogy: The definitive text for piano teachers and pedagogy students. Miami: Warner Bros, 2004.

Fisher, Christopher. Teaching Piano in Groups. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Saphier, Jon, Robert R Gower, and Mary Ann Haley-Speca. The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills. Acton: Research For Better Teaching, 2008.

#3: Learning Styles

The concept of "learning styles" has become a topic of hot debate in recent years. In this episode we look at some of the most common theories and systems for classifying different learning modalities, what the contested research indicates, and key takeaways we can apply as music teachers.

✎ NOTES:

Baker-Jordan, Martha. Practical piano pedagogy: The definitive text for piano teachers and pedagogy students. Miami: Warner Bros, 2004.

Prithishkumar, I. J., & Michael, S. A. "Understanding your student: using the VARK model." Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 60.2: 183–186.

Veritasium: “The Biggest Myth in Education.” YouTube.com: July 9, 2021.

#4: Music on the Mind

For centuries music has often been regarded—even revered—as an inscrutable art form, with particular skill credited to magical attributes like "gift" and "talent." With modern research, however, we can understand the role our brain and its mechanics play in the process of learning to demystify the process and structure our teaching around science-based methods.

✎ NOTES:

Doidge, Norman. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications, 2008.

Gebrian, Molly and Barbara Fast. "Practice and the Brain." The Frances Clark Center Webinar Series, Fall 2021.

Helding, Lynn. The Musician’s Mind. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Jacobsen, Edmund. “Electrophysiology of Mental Activities.” The American Journal of Psychology 44, no. 4 (October 1932): 677-694.

Mishra, Jennifer and Barbara Fast. iPractice: Technology in the 21st Century Music Practice Room. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Sisterhen McAllister, Lesley. The Balanced Musician: Integrating Mind and Body for Peak Performance. Toronto: Plymouth Scarecrow Press, 2013.

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