Thinking as You Play: Teaching Piano in Individual and Group Lessons
This thoughtful and thought-provoking book is stuffed full of information that sometimes must be digested slowly. Coats illustrates her points with stories from her own teaching and the teaching of her pedagogy students. The many non-piano references provide valuable jumping-off points for further study.American Music Teacher"[A] wonderful book for the experienced teacher who wants to take his or her teaching to the next level. Graduate pedagogy students or undergraduates... would also benefit greatly from this book.... [T]houghtful and thought-provoking... stuffed full of information." —American Music Teacher"Instructors wishing to sharpen their apporach to private and group pinao lessons and willing to use the techniques Coats outlines will undoubtedly become better at teaching students to think for themselves." —Music Educators Journal