Dr. Rachel Ehring is a true creative! She shares all the many hats she wears, and the solutions she has found and developed for each. We talk:
teaching resources, private and group
accompanying (she has a new how-to course coming out! link)
podcastingAll the things! Here are her top 3 tips for beginning teachers
1. Don't try to do everything. It's easy to get "shiny object" syndrome and want to try everything you hear about, but you have to choose what is going to be the most useful thing right now and focus on that
2. That being said...don't be afraid to try new activities, games, tools. You will start to build an arsenal of activities that you can use "on the fly" if you have a squirrely student or one who is having a hard time grasping a concept.
3. Stories are a great way to connect with students. You can use storybooks about music. I've also created short "sound effect stories" that I use with my beginning students to teach simple musical concepts.
Speaking of stories, characters and stories can be fantastic to help students memorize, details to come about techniques to teach Memorizing Mastery and Performance without Anxiety!
Dynamic Accompanying Course Waitlist
Dynamic Piano Teaching Podcast
Episode 15: Janet Hart on Piano Detectives Club
Etsy Store (Sound Effect Stories)
More piano teaching resources on angelatoone.com
how I teach a first piano lesson video
piano teacher primer course