The Music Teacher's Companion is the essential handbook for instrumental and singing teachers. All teachers wil find it elevant, whether they are working at home or in schools, full-time or part-time, teaching individuals or groups. - Contains advice, information and pragmatic solutions to teaching problems. - Deals with the quality of teaching and learning, such as monitoring achievement, motivation and progress. - Discusses concepts and strategies that have often been unquestioned during years of teaching, and includes ideas that may surprise and challenge. - Contains forms for lesson plans, pupil profiles, termly overviews and attendance registers and much other useful information. The Music Teacher's Companion will invigorate, broaden and stimulate all aspects of music teaching and will help teacher to give their best to their pupils.
Contents
SECTION ONE: The Essence of Teaching
Chapter 1: Teachers and Pupils
Effective Teaching
Making Assumptions
The Teacher
The Pupil
Assessing Potential Pupils
Pupil Profile Forms
Chapter 2: Age and Approach
Musical Experiences for the Very Young
The Growing Child
Early Burn-Out
The Developing Child
Adolescence
Teaching Adults
Chapter 3: Lessons
Evolving a Cirriculum
Teaching Style
Learning Styles
Basic Principles of Teaching
Lesson Presentation
Expectation
Guidance
Lesson Content
The First Lessons
Lesson Etiquette
Chapter 4: Motivation
Defining Motivation
Motivation in Practice
Poor Motivation
Transeferring Responsibility as a Form of Motivation
Chapter 5: Monitoring Your Work
Language - Praise and Criticism
Language - Technical Terms
Planning and Preparation
Music and General Content
Time for relection:
On a Specific Pupil
On a Specific Lesson
Chapter 6: Teaching Rhythm
What is Rhythm?
Have I Got Rhythm?
Teaching Pulse
The Vital Importance of Subdivision
Teaching RhythmicPatterns
Word Rhythms
Teaching Counting
When is 'one' not 'one'?
Pulse and tempo
Chapter 7: Teaching Sight Reading
Why Learn to Sight-read?
The Reading Process
The Basic Elements of Sight-reading
Pitch
Rhythm
Combining Pitch with Rhythm
Sight-reading as a multi-task activity
Remembering the Key Signature
Looking Ahead
Observing Dynamic Markings and Other Marks of Expression and Articulation
Fingering
Developing an Aural Understanding of the Music
How to Teach Sight-Reading
Making Mental Plans
Skim-reading
Sight-reading in Examinations
Chapter 8: Teaching Scales
Scales and Technique
Teaching Strategies
By Ear or Not By Ear
Scale Learning Without Scales!
Making Friends with Scales
The Perfect Scale
Practice Strategies
Teaching Modes
Chapter 9: Teaching Aural Skills
The Point of Aural Training
The Musical Ear
An Ever-present Ingredient
Using The Voice
Playing and Singing in Tune
Memory
Aural and Memory
Specific Aural Tests
Claping or tapping back a rhythmic phrase
Singing Back a Melody
Identifying Interval, Cadences, Chords, major/minor etc.
Perceptive Listening
Spotting Mistakes
Chapter 10: Improvising and Composing
What is Improvisation?
Why Impovise?
Practical Uses of Improvisation and Working With Notation
As Part of Aural Training
Improvising Exercises to Improve Technique
Increasing General Musical Awareness
Developing Confidence
Exploring the Instrument
Self-expression Through Improvisation
The Development of Skills Required in Certain Exams
The Development of a Particular Musical Genre
From Improvising to Composing
Chapter 11: Simultaneous Learning
The Problem
The Soluion
The Simultaneous Learning Lesson
Making Connections
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