Making Use of the Lesson
by Edmund Sprunger
Ideas for using children’s lessons and practice times (i.e. home lessons) to accomplish our biggest job: to become useless. We accomplish this task through helping students develop a variety of skills, especially the skills to teach themselves. Edmund Sprunger, (MI) Teacher Trainer and author of Helping Parents Practice.
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Edmund Sprunger: Teacher Trainer. Presentations at numerous state, national, and international conferences. Has taught hundreds of workshops throughout North and South America. BA in music from Goshen College—violin with Lon Sherer, and piano and piano pedagogy with Marvin Blickenstaff. Also trained as a psychotherapist, holds Masters in Social Work (University of Michigan); and extensive post-degree training with the Michigan and St. Louis psychoanalytic institutes. Additional violin studies with Chihiro Kudo and Reinaldo Couto (Alexander Technique/Violin). Served on the SAA Board; was Chair of ASTA’s Committee on Studio Instruction. 2004 ASTA Citation for Leadership and Merit. Author of Helping Parents Practice. Editor of the Violin Forum for the American String Teacher (the ASTA journal). Also serves as Director of the Child Development Program at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
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