Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith.
Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith.
Why are independent music teachers (IMT) so underpaid? Beth had quite a list of contributing reasons! Here’s a few:
Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith.
This session involved a lot of discussion as a group. Attendees raised their hands to share ideas for finding and keeping students. Here’s a few ideas that I jotted down:
Led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein, and Scott McBride Smith.
Make a plan for yourself, to focus on (1) continual growth, (2) quality, and (3) innovation. As Peter Drucker once said, “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Continue reading “MTNA 2012 Conference | Prof. Studio Institute: Creative Curriculum”
Here begins my notes from the 2012 MTNA Conference in NYC! I had such a wonderful time, and I learned so much.
Saturday is always an optional day at the MTNA Conference. For an extra $75, you can attend Pedagogy Saturday or choose the Professional Studio Institute track. I chose the latter, which was led by Lee Galloway, Beth Gigante Klingenstein (author of The Independent Piano Teacher’s Studio Handbook
Having studio documents is important for professionalism, to protect yourself, to save time, for marketing, and for organization. Some documents you should consider having for your studio:
Just wanted to show off a picture of my new laminator today…
I bought it a couple of weeks ago for $15 at Aldi, believe it or not! At that price, I figured it was worth trying out. I’ve been so happy with it and have been laminating a lot of my games and flashcards.
I am off to NYC for the MTNA conference very soon!! I am very excited. I will be taking off from blogging for most of next week, but when I return I will have lots of conference notes and photos to share! I’m also looking forward to meeting some of the other piano teacher bloggers who are going.
Happy weekend!
Wendy Stevens from the ComposeCreate blog has created a wonderful rhythm resource called Rhythm Menagerie.
In Wendy’s own words:
“Rhythm Menagerie is designed to take away the distractions of note reading, articulation, and other music concepts so that students can focus on having fun while strengthening their rhythm!”
Rhythm Menagerie is a 93-page pdf for teachers to use with their students. The license permits teachers to print as many copies as they wish as long as they are using it with their own students. Rhythm Mengerie is for sale on Wendy’s website for $34.99. (Wendy has kindly offered to give Color In My Piano readers a limited-time discount, however — read to the bottom of this post to learn more!) Continue reading “Review: Rhythm Menagerie by Wendy Stevens”
“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
— Oscar Wilde
Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send an email off to admin[at]colorinmypiano.com.
I haven’t done one of these in awhile! Here’s a roundup of some great blogs you may not have seen before:
The Plucky Pianista – Melody Payne has started a great blog and has already shared some fabulous worksheets!
I can’t believe that the MTNA Conference in NYC is just over a week away! I can’t wait!
Are any of you going? Natalie from Music Matters Blog is planning a get-together on Saturday for dinner. I plan to attend, and would be thrilled to meet any of you who are going to the conference. So please, consider joining us!
Hope to see some of you there! 🙂
I had a wonderful extended weekend in Michigan, giving my presentations and spending time with my family! Now I’m busy back at work, playing catch-up. 🙂 However, I do have a little game I’d like to share with you today.
I am not the original inventor of this game, I’m sure — but in case you haven’t seen it before, here’s how to play this keyboard game with your beginner students!
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