For College Professors...

As a college professor dedicated to the highest standards of teaching expertise, you realize that your piano pedagogy students are the piano teachers of tomorrow. So what you teach in your class today will affect generations of piano students to come.

The approach an instructor takes toward beginning students must be very different than the approach he or she takes toward intermediate or advanced students. Therefore, what is really needed is three separate and distinct classes on pedagogy—Piano Pedagogy I—Beginning Students, Piano Pedagogy II—Intermediate Students, and
Piano Pedagogy III—Advanced Students. (If you currently offer only one course, you will be faced with the daunting task of combining three different focuses into one semester, while somehow doing each of them justice!)

The Art of Effective Piano Teaching targets the teaching of beginning students. Author Dino P. Ascari believes that at the initial stages of instruction it is most important for teachers to develop in students the love of music. For when a student truly learns to love his or her instrument, there is no telling what artistic levels he or she may achieve later in life.

Developing the love of an instrument, and music in general, is accomplished by combining sound teaching principles with an abundance of motivational techniques. It is further accomplished by helping teachers understand that music lessons must be a positive experience for all students.

If teachers truly adopt this mindset, they will seek to improve their teaching as well as their organizational skills. The Art of Effective Piano Teaching can help them achieve this goal. The result will be a greater number of beginning students that go on to enjoy a lifetime of musical expression.

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