Pace Creative Piano Teaching Conference

Looking for Creative Ideas & Practical Tips?

CREATIVE PIANO TEACHING

STRATEGIES 2016

Join Fellow Teachers for Two
Exciting Conference Days
 
Hands On Workshops and Open Forum Discussions 

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, come meet with colleagues for two invigorating days. Enjoy presentations by experienced clinicians and lots of lively teacher-to-teacher shoptalk.

http://artist-pianos.com/Albany, NY
The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center

Dates: Tuesday & Wednesday July 12-13, 2016
Time: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Includes: Buffet Lunch Both Days
Certificate of Attendance for Conference Participants 

Sessions:
    INTRODUCTION : COMPREHENSIVE MUSICIANSHIP   

• Welcome: Opening remarks.   

    ENERGIZE STUDENTS WITH VARIETY   

• Use contrasting teaching techniques in a complementary way: This hands-on workshop explores ways to captivate students’ attention by intermixing teaching modes, including ones that are intuition-based, rote, conceptual, unstructured, inductive, deductive, and peer learning-based. Examples focus on engaging students in interpretation, performance, fundamentals, and creative activities. Highlights selections from the Robert Pace Piano Series and how recent learning theory relates. Dr. Cynthia Pace

   VERY YOUNG BEGINNERS   

• Keeping Learning Alive and Fun Throughout the Week: At-home activities teachers can teach to parents of young students, for between-lesson encouragement of creative thinking, listening skills, and musical enjoyment.

 • Tailoring Lessons to the Preschooler:  How to plan lessons, using a concept book, that appeal to young children’s natural curiosity, and inspire them to discover fundamental musical concepts through sound, sight and touch-based games and activities.  Nancy Hartnell 

• Duets for Very Young Beginners
Further details soon. Yoko Jimbo

   INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS   

• A Happy First-Festival Experience: Guiding students to quickly & easily learn a representative early-level festival piece, by using analysis, technique, and creative skills from Pace Levels 1& 2. 

• Games Students (And Teachers!) Love: Games and materials for reinforcing concepts for reading and transposing at the pre-school and early elementary level  using pre-reading shape cards, interval cards, spinners,  games with multiple uses, seasonal themes and more.  Julie Lovison 

    JUNIOR HIGH & HIGH SCHOOLERS   

• Inspiring and Retaining Late Intermediate and Advanced Students:  Tips for making the challenges of teaching Middle and High School students enjoyable for both students and teacher: Matching instruction styles to the changing needs of groups, individuals, and situations; developing extra opportunities to reach out and listen to parents and teens; finding activities that interest High School groups; structuring in the learning and creating of longer, more extended compositions; facilitating rewarding combined-group learning for future music majors, lifetime appreciators, and recreational performers.  Kathy Van Arsdale

    COMPREHENSIVE MUSICIANSHIP CONTINUED   

• The Fine Art of Group Teaching of Piano: Further details soon. Sister Marion Verhaalen, EdD. 

   More Sessions Coming - Please Check Back Soon   

Sponsored by
International Piano Foundation & Lee Roberts Music Publications
Questions: Cynthia Pace
Info.Iptf@gmail.com