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Cultivating Creative, Motivated Students - Part 2: Improvisation
In the first article, we talked about using multimedia to foster creativity and motivate your students. (If you missed it, click here.)...


Cultivating Creative, Motived Students - Part 1: Using Multimedia
Despite music being a creative endeavor, teachers often get stuck in a monotonous routine of doing the same things the same way all the...


The Benefits of Rote Teaching
Dr. Julie Knerr (left) teaches piano at her home studio in Windsor, Connecticut. She holds degrees in piano performance and piano...


Productivity Tips for Piano Teachers
A Guest Post by Joy Morin of ColorInMyPiano.com Click here for Joy's biography. If you are like me, you probably wear many hats: teaching...


What's Wrong With Me? Performing the Prokofiev Three Piano Concerto
Dr. Michelle Conda is the Head of the Keyboard Division and Coordinator of Secondary Piano and Piano Pedagogy and Professor of Piano at...


Composition in the Private Studio
Amy Rose Immerman is one of Cincinnati’s most active and well-known piano teachers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a...


Preserving Memories: A Sticker Book from 1938
Left: Houghton, Samuel G. (1938) The Music Album: a “stamp album” to collect and record your musical experiences and memories. New York:...


CCM-MTNA on The Future of Music Teaching
In the past few issues, Clavier Companion has released a series entitled “The Future of Piano Teaching.” While this is an open–ended and...


29 Ways to Know You're a Music Teacher
1. You know you’re a music teacher if it’s totally normal to play Christmas music in October. 2. You know you’re a music teacher if you...
JUST READ!
Suggestions for Summer Reading OK, I admit it—one of my weaknesses is reading. I love to read! Unfortunately, my nose is often buried...
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