Improve your teaching!
Subtitle: an essential handbook for instrumental and singing teachers
By: Paul Harris
Publisher: Faber Music
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780571525348
Subjects: Music; Instruction and study; Musique; Étude et enseignement
Description: 'Improve your teaching! is a "must have" handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers. Packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies, it offers creative yet accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It outlines Paul Harris' innovative strategy of "Simultaneous learning": a method that encourages the development of musical insight by making connections between all aspects of musicianship and discusses topics including lesson preparation, aural and memory work, effective practice, improvisation and composition, sight-reading and group teaching. Cleverly fusing established teaching techniques with fresh and exciting ideas, 'Improve your teaching!' represents a modern and holistic approach to musical instruction.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduciont; title: 1. We can all improve our teaching; title: 2. Simultaneous learning; title: 3. Left and right; title: 4. Using the right brain; title: 5. Practice makes perfect ... or does it?; title: 6. The first lesson; title: 7. Sight-reading; title: 8. Group teaching; title: 9. And finally ...