Anna Fagan shares her experience with music lab and how it all began for her in this review below. I love her story and maybe yours is similar? Whether or not you have been running a music lab for years or just getting started, music lab was born to solve a problem....
A Simple Step-by-Step Start to Major Scales – All Without a Book
Elizabeth Gutierrez from Piano Teacher Academy has launched a new course, A Simple Step-by-Step Start to Major Scales - All Without a Book. If you enrolled in the 2017 Piano Camp for Piano Teachers online course bundle from last summer you already have this course,...
Have You Taken the Free Music Lab Course Yet?
Did you know that Music Educator Resources has online courses you can take? Yep! I enjoy doing online courses because I love to help teachers improve their teaching, learn, grow and stretch. One of the courses that I have shared is The Basics of Starting a Music Lab,...
Review: Piano Program Music Theory Courses
Have you ever been excited about something where it ends up taking over your dreams? This happens to me all the time, but I didn't expect it to happen with this... Dr. Kathy Rabago from PianoProgram.com has created a Piano Program Music Theory Course for students....
Piano Teacher Academy
I am excited to introduce you to Piano Teacher Academy. Elizabeth Gutierrez, whom you may know from her published compositions or clinicians with Faber started holding piano camps for teachers in 2009. In recent years she started putting these workshops and resources...
FREE Masterclass!
Christopher Sutton over at Musical-U.com invited me awhile back to do a masterclass for Musical U. After brainstorming a few ideas and subjects, I decided to present on mindful practicing. Many of the subscribers over at Musical-U are students learning an instrument...
From Preschoolers to Adults
Have you ever had a student hide under the grand piano playing a little hide and seek the second you turned your back? How about a really wiggly student who just couldn't sit still? Or maybe an adult student who's lesson time was over and realizing after...
From Stagnant to Engaging!
As teachers, we know all too well that no two students are exactly alike. For this reason, it is important that we change up our teaching styles, strategies and techniques to prevent our lessons from becoming stagnant. The not so great news is we are creatures of...
Establish an Engaged Learning Environment
Engaging our students can sometimes feel overwhelming especially when a teacher might be feeling a bit burned out. But did you know that when we truly engage our students in their learning we can also be engaged in our teaching? And visa versa. This is because...
3 Ways to Activate the Students Brain
Have you ever had a student tell you, "You never taught me that" when you know that not only have you taught them what they were claiming you didn't, but you have gone through it multiple times? There is actually a scientific reason in the brain that explain...