Teaching How to Teach...

My high school students seem to be enjoying their pedagogy class! I am enjoying it as well! This past week we went over what a typical lesson plan could be for the first two private lessons in working with a beginning piano student. We are using the primer level of the Bastien Piano Basics series as our curriculm for teaching an average-age beginner. The series has four books at each level and I am taking my students through the books, page by page, talking about different concepts which are presented.

As part of this pedagogy class, I have requested that each of my students find their own private student(s) to teach. A fun assignment which has been completed was to design a flyer or brochure in order to help obtain prospective students. Click on this link to see a sample brochure designed by a 17-year-old student!Download pianoad1by_james_gu.doc