Adventures of A Music Educator

Adventures of A Music Educator

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  • The Changing Landscape of Music Centre Business in Malaysia | Episode 22 | Guest Amanda Ong

    Music learning is mainly provided as an enrichment programme in Malaysia. What is known as music academies or schools elsewhere is known as music centres here in Malaysia. Since the pandemic, the music teaching business is badly impacted and the industry is going through some growing pains as business owners accept, adapt and adopt new ways of running the business.  In this video podcast episode, I'm joined by Amanda Ong, the owner of Fusion Music Studio Puchong and a member of my online learning community, Music Teacher Meets Technology. Amanda shared some of the progressive decisions she made for her studio. Tune in to find out more!  

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro
    00:52 Guest intro and education background
    04:45 How Amanda started her own music centre
    10:15 The norms of managing the business (i.e. staffing)
    12:32 A brief explanation of the Malaysian music teaching business
    13:20 The integrity of music teachers and how Amanda overcome staffing problems  
    14:50 The service offered to parents and students
    17:55 Other services provided by music centres
    19:40 Teachers as entrepreneurs
    21:40 Teacher branding
    24:56 How Amanda started to see the importance of branding
    26:26 Cher's aspiration & niche in her own career
    29:05 Don't focus on competition and just move forward
    31:31 Amanda's success stories and trusting staff
    33:47 The initial difficulties
    36:27 Shared experience but different coping mechanisms
    39:52 How Amanda get her teachers to ease into the new norm
    42:40 Training tech to senior teachers
    43:55 Zoom fatigue
    44:34 Handling large class size online, class management and handling lesson objectives
    48:10 Preparing materials for online lessons
    49:30 Teaching older students
    52:44 Feedback from teachers, parents & students
    54:30 Online toddler music class
    56:12 Amanda's game plan -"Start local, go global" and advertising the school's programme
    59:12 Social media marketing
    01:01:26 Mindset reset
    01:02:47 Amanda's hope for the industry
    01:07:01 How you can contact Amanda [Check podcast show notes]

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    Amanda Ong, Fusion Music Studio Puchong  

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Music Research During A Pandemic | Episode 20 | Guest Lee Voon Foong

    The pandemic has affected education worldwide and scholarly pursuits in music research is not left out. In this video podcast, I'm joined by Lee Voon Foong to discuss about some of the challenges and changes in the field of music research during this trying times. Is going virtual the only research method now? We also discussed a little about how the pandemic has affected music teaching and the learning attitudes of music teachers.   

    Timestamps 

    00:00 Host intro

    00:35 Guest intro
    07:55 Topic intro
    09:07 Brief overview of Voon Foong's research
    11:20 Type of research he is doing
    14:14 Finding his research participants
    15:19 Getting information from music teachers
    17:28 Challenges during the pandemic
    21:15 The new norm of research
    24:00 Using survey in research
    25:34 Is the pandemic discouraging qualitative research?  
    27:46 Significance of research observation
    29:51 Challenges of experimental research
    31:07 Opportunities in research now
    32:03 Challenges in virtual learning - Latency, teacher experience in virtual class
    33:39 Self-efficacy of music teachers in teaching and learning
    37:50 The attitudes of music teachers towards the pandemic
    40:05 The difficulties of teaching wind instruments virtually and how it affects audio suppression in video calls
    42:56 Closing thoughts by Voon Foong
    46:25 Phd????
    47:55 Connecting with Voon Foong

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    51 min
  • Episode 15 | Inspiring Teacher | Teacher Appreciation Month

    It is Teacher Appreciation Month! In this episode, I share my thoughts about the inspiring teachers and mentors in my life and how they influenced my growth as a teacher.

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    16 min
  • Episode 14 | Quick update

    Just a very quick update on what's happening and I finally appear on camera for this podcast. Frazzled me is just real life.   

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    5 min

About Adventures of A Music Educator

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Hello! I'm Cherylyn and I'm a music teacher from Malaysia. I love sharing my experiences in teaching and other stuff like technology, gardening, movies. Tune in to listen to my learning journeys, funny stories and teaching tricks!