Pace Creative Piano Teaching Conference

Looking for Creative Ideas & Practical Tips?

CREATIVE PIANO TEACHING

STRATEGIES 2016

Join Fellow Teachers for Two
Exciting Conference Days
 
Hands On Workshops and Open Forum Discussions 

 Sessions:
    INTRODUCTION : COMPREHENSIVE MUSICIANSHIP   

• Welcome & Opening Remarks   

    ENERGIZE STUDENTS WITH VARIETY   

• Use contrasting teaching techniques in a complementary way: Building enthusiasm and sustaining students' interest by mixing a variety of teaching modes. These include ones that are intuition-based, rote, conceptual, unstructured, inductive, deductive, and peer learning-based. Hands-on examples of ways to keep activities fun and engaging as students focus on interpretation, performance, fundamentals, technique and creative activities. Includes highlights from recent, related learning theory that supports this approach. Cynthia Pace, EdD.

   VERY YOUNG BEGINNERS   

• Keeping Learning Alive and Fun Throughout the Week: At-home activities teachers can teach to parents of young students, for between-lesson encouragement of creative thinking, listening skills, and musical enjoyment.

 • Tailoring Lessons to the Preschooler:  How to plan lessons, using a concept book, that appeal to young children’s natural curiosity, and inspire them to discover fundamental musical concepts through sound, sight and touch-based games and activities.  Nancy Hartnell 

• Duets for Very Young Beginners
Further details soon. Yoko Jimbo

   INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS   

• A Happy First-Festival Experience: Guiding students to quickly & easily learn a representative early-level festival piece, by using analysis, technique, and creative skills from Pace Levels 1& 2. 

• Games Students (And Teachers!) Love: Games and materials for reinforcing concepts for reading and transposing at the pre-school and early elementary level  using pre-reading shape cards, interval cards, spinners,  games with multiple uses, seasonal themes and more.  Julie Lovison 

    JUNIOR HIGH & HIGH SCHOOLERS   

• Inspiring and Retaining Late Intermediate and Advanced Students:  Tips for making the challenges of teaching Middle and High School students enjoyable for both students and teacher: Matching instruction styles to the changing needs of groups, individuals, and situations; developing extra opportunities to reach out and listen to parents and teens; finding activities that interest High School groups; structuring in the learning and creating of longer, more extended compositions; facilitating rewarding combined-group learning for future music majors, lifetime appreciators, and recreational performers.  Kathy Van Arsdale

    COMPREHENSIVE MUSICIANSHIP, CONT'D   

• The Fine Art of Group Teaching of Piano. Sister Marion Verhaalen, EdD. 
• Using Structure to Design Dynamic Shape of a Performance. Sister Marion Verhaalen, EdD. 
• Using Improvisation to enhance musical understanding, confidence and enjoyment. Nan Walton
• Group Piano In Brazil. Simone Machado, PhD 
• The Pace Approach In Japan. Yoko Jimbo     

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International Piano Teaching Foundation
Questions: Cynthia Pace
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