62. Pro Tips with Rachel Ehring
from piano teacher primer Hosted by Angela Toone
Dr. Rachel Ehring is a true creative! She shares all the many hats she wears, and the solutions she has found and developed for each. We talk: teaching resources, private and group accompanying (she has a new how-to course coming out! link) podcasting All the things! Here are her top 3 tips for beginning teachers 1. Don't try to do everything. It's easy to get "shiny object" syndrome and want to try everything you hear about, but you have to choose what is going to be the most useful thing right now and focus on that 2. That being said...don't be afraid to try new activities, games, tools. You will start to build an arsenal of activities that you can use "on the fly" if you have a squirrely student or one who is having a hard time grasping a concept. 3. Stories are a great way to connect with students. You can use storybooks about music. I've also created short "sound effect stories" that I use with my beginning students to teach simple musical concepts. Speaking of stories, characters and stories can be fantastic to help students memorize, details to come about techniques to teach Memorizing Mastery and Performance without Anxiety! Dynamic Accompanying Course Waitlist Dynamic Piano Teaching Podcast Episode 15: Janet Hart on Piano Detectives Club TopMusic Piano Podcast Etsy Store (Sound Effect Stories) More piano teaching resources on angelatoone.com how I teach a first piano lesson video piano teacher primer course
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