Teaching Principles and Strategies
Principles
1
Foster an interdependent studio where each student is mentored in their talents, dreams and goals at a pace commensurate with their level and rate of development.
2
Inspire by example by continuing to grow and develop musically, professionally and personally.
3
Build technical and musical skills for unconscious competence and integrated musicianship.
4
Extend the position of students as mere consumers of music to that of being able to analyze how music works, and then as inventors, apply theory creatively in interpreting, composing and improvising music.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
Strategies
MOMENTUM
Maintain momentum through scheduling lesson content and events that provide direction, purpose and hope for each student.
COLLABORATION
Collaborate with colleagues and other music professionals for the benefit of student development.
CONNECTION
Interact with clientele in between lessons through e-mail and various social media platforms.