My students have been the unwitting participants in a new experiment this year. After hearing Marvin Blickenstaff mention it at NCKP, I’ve been testing the idea of writing out the piano homework before their actual lesson. When I started teaching, I used a simple notebook for each student that they brought to each week’s lesson….
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Lessons Learned from NCKP 2017 Part 3: Practice and Progress
During one of the teaching demonstration discussions on the second day of NCKP 2017 Robert Duke told a story of a student teacher. The teacher was complaining to Robert that week after week, her student would come back not having practiced at all… She asked Robert what she was supposed to do in this situation…