beginning student teaching video clips

[maryruth]

Do any of you folks visit

www.pianoteaching.com?

 Lately there have been video clips of beginning piano lessons.  What do you all think?

[m1469]

These days, I have been pondering the idea that it matters less what method one chooses to use, and more, how one uses it.  If a teacher has very clear ideas in mind, knows how to have clear goals for each lesson, understands to a degree what kind of progression in learning this will lead into, is prepared to help the student out of any pitfalls the "method" may incur, then that is about the most one can ask for.   Teachers teach what they believe in, and they grow in confidence in their relationship with being able to teach these things.

In this video, Nancy Faber is clearly comfortable with her method.  She appears to have very clear goals and they must have been accomplished, otherwise she would probably not have broadcast the video.  I would assume that she also knows where her method leads, and has most likely developed methods of helping students out of any pitfalls that may arise later down the road.  I see a woman who clearly enjoys children, enjoys music, and enjoys teaching, and a child whom is receptive to these things.  That's all that's really going on, I suppose, for any of us.


m1469