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Tag Archives: teaching
Issue 94: What is a teacher?
MusicTeacher @DailyMusicQuote 26 Jul 11 “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” ~Thomas Carruthers I have reached this place with a couple of students this term; they have travelled as far as they want to go and are … Continue reading
Issue 77: A week of djembe classes
I spend a large proportion of the week as a primary school Wider Opportunities music teacher. The instruments I teach vary from year to year. At the moment I am teaching 6 different djembe classes, in different schools. (I also teach 4 different … Continue reading
Issue 12: A Useful Link; The Musician’s Way
Since joining twitter, I have found some terrific sites to follow and it is quite hard to fit in all the browsing as well as the admin and even the teaching that I am supposed to be doing – as … Continue reading
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Tagged learning skills, links, practising, teaching
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Issue 12: Sight Reading is Fun!
“Has she taken leave of her senses?” “Sightreading? Fun?” “Never!”. I hated and dreaded sightreading, and so do many of my pupils. It is the time of maximum exposure to failure and dismay, and modern teaching methods are all about … Continue reading
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Tagged learning skills, sightreading, teaching
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Issue 5: Silence is Golden
I never knew about how effective Silent Practise was until I started teaching beginner recorders. I hit upon the idea of fingering the notes while singing the words, and the letter names, and the fingering numbers, over and over again, … Continue reading
Posted in Piano, Recorders, The organised teacher
Tagged fingering, Piano, recorders, silence, teaching
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