Can we redesign music education? blog design design experience disrupt education education policy music education professional development redesign student experience design students sx designer teachers user experience user interface ux Mar 27, 2017

What if we could redesign music education?

A designer’s goal is to make experiences simple, intuitive and accessible.  It’s all about creating an effective user experience. In many first lessons, teachers start with a symbolic language of staff, treble clef, whole notes, half...

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How To Make Practicing Fun For Your Music Students andrew ingkavet games for music students games to teach music gamification how to make practice fun how to teach kids music lesson plan ideas music curriculum music method music practice tips music student best practices music teacher music teacher best practices practicing tips teaching ideas teaching kids music the musicolor method Sep 17, 2015

Years ago I began to  notice a problem with some of my students:  Some of them would only retain the last one or two songs we were working on in the music lessons.

No matter how many times I tried to explain that it was important to retain a "repertoire" of pieces they could...

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How To Teach Perseverance, Grit and Success angela lee duckworth character children curiosity determination grit how children succeed lesson plan ideas mindset parenting perseverance success teaching ted talk Sep 26, 2013

Soft Skills Vs Hard Skills

There's been a lot of talk in the education world of late about the value of the soft skills, emotional and psychological.  These are the skills that are traditionally not tested.  Unlike math or reading or science, these skills are more nuanced.

Because I'm a...

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Teaching Kids How To Read Music Using Solfège, Hand Signs & Kinesthetic Learning activity for reading music close encounters movie concepts in music curwen hand signs guido de arrezzo how to learn music how to read music john curwen kodaly learning to read music lesson plans music education music lesson music teaching music theory pitch poster printable resources solfege solfeggio teaching music tips for teachers Nov 29, 2012

Teaching young kids to read music is quite a challenge.  I approach through a long process of micro-steps.  It's the reverse of peeling an onion.  It's a layering technique of building up from tiny kernels of understanding, expanding outwards.

The first lessons are always...

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Glenn Gould's Finger Tapping Exercise for Piano Technique alberto guerrero blog early childhood education early music teaching finger tapping glenn gould home schooling ingkavet kids music lessons learning music learning piano music music curriculum music education music for children music for kids music lesson music lessons music teaching park slope piano exercise piano lesson practicing piano suzuki method technique video Feb 09, 2011

Many of you are struggling with playing cleanly and smoothly. This simple technique can help you to relax your fingers to pay more fluidly. Developed by Glenn Gould's mentor and longtime teacher Chilean pianist Alberto Guerrero, it aims to retain a relaxed muscle memory.

You can learn more about...

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