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
