Getting Over the Fear of Teaching Online and Video Lessons By Jennifer Foxx I thought the conference theme this year was a perfect one to share my presentation, Getting Over the Fear of Teaching Online and Video Lessons. This is a session where I stress that teaching...
Discovering the Insides of the Piano
If your students are anything like mine, they are often curious as to how the piano works. When they come for lessons, many of them will stand up and look inside the grand as they play a note totally fascinated at what is going on inside. I use that as an...
Top 3 Benefits of Summer Camp
For over 20 years now I have been holding summer camps in my studio. Matter of fact, I hold camps in my studio twice a year (December and May/June) because I find them so beneficial. If you ever toyed with the idea of running a summer camp, I would highly encourage...
Getting Parents Involved in Your Groups!
This week was one of my all time favorite group lessons! The reason? I had a special guest come to present to my students. The special guest was a Dad of 3 students I teach. I knew he had a pretty cool music background and a lot of instruments but it wasn't until I...
Group Made Fun: Christmas Lessons and More!
Halloween isn't over yet and I'm already talking about Christmas! Well as you know teachers need to be ahead of the game so we are prepared! Over 10+ years ago, I started what I call "Christmas camp" in my studio. For the first two weeks in December my students come...
Tech Tuesday: Class DoJo
As much as I enjoy holding group lessons and camps they can be exhausting. More in the last 5 years then I ever remember. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe the kids don't take authority as well, maybe it's a combination of the two. Now mind you it's not all my classes that...