Teachers, unlimit your improvement
I recently rediscovered the best resource to improved teaching. This past week I went to several of my lessons armed with my video camera. Have you ever thought about who is most critical of you? Maybe its not universal, but I’m pretty sure that I’m more critical of myself than anyone else has ever been. Watching myself do anything in retrospect is simply torture. During grad school I spent many hours evaluating my own teaching demonstrations, and never became fully comfortable with the task. But nonetheless, who better to criticize your work than yourself?
This week I dusted off my camera, and when all was said and done, I had a few great revelations about teaching. Read on to share what I discovered!
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April 23, 2010 3 Comments
Golden Goals
From teacher, to student, to teacher, to student. Have you ever thought about your former piano teacher’s pedagogical lineage? If you are a teacher, then you had a teacher, who also had a teacher, who had a teacher, and so on. My most recent piano teacher is a fourth generation student of Beethoven! I had another teacher during my undergrad years who could trace her teacher’s lineage back to Liszt! Its amazing what legacies can be passed down through generations of teachers. Whether your lineage is famous or not, there are certain ways that you teach because you had a teacher who taught you the same way. Recognizing how to transfer this information can be a powerful teaching technique. [Read more →]
August 2, 2009 No Comments
