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Expand Your Suzuki Foundation

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March 16 - April 27

$20.00
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Price: $149 CAD + nonrefundable deposit of $20 USD, payable here

Expand Your Suzuki Foundation with Dr. Merlin B. Thompson

Dr. Suzuki changed the music teaching world forever. Now it’s our turn to keep things moving.

Welcome to Expand Your Suzuki Foundation – a forward-thinking Suzuki Teacher Enrichment Course designed for instrumental and vocal Suzuki teachers who recognize how times have changed and are eager to bring your teaching up-to-date. Dr. Suzuki never stopped asking, “What do students need now?” And neither should we.

As the only course of its kind, Expand Your Suzuki Foundation addresses today’s music teaching challenges by expanding our Suzuki foundation with 21st century teaching tools. This means you’ll stay rooted in the nurturing philosophy that defines Suzuki teaching while learning how to respond confidently to today’s learners, families, and studio realities. You’ll explore pedagogical strategies Dr. Suzuki couldn’t have imagined but provide timely fuel for our work as 21st century Suzuki teachers – strategies like curriculum models, reflective communication, and practicing tools informed by neuroscience research. 

Whether you’re early in your Suzuki journey or decades into it, this course widens the lens of your teaching. Through real-life teaching explorations, collaborative discussion, and thoughtful examination of today’s teaching context, you’ll gain practical approaches for working with today’s richly diverse students. The result? Meaningful student engagement, renewed teacher resilience, and clearer paths toward lifelong music-making—for your students and for you.

Are you interested? Please check out the course outline and testimonials from recent participants here — https://www.teachmusic21c.com/suzuki

More than a refresher, Expand Your Suzuki Foundation is an invitation to carry Dr. Suzuki’s vision forward with intention, imagination, and care.

I hope you’ll join.

Dr. Merlin B. Thompson

You must be logged in to your SAA account and have Active Membership to join the course roster below. 

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to the enrollment box, click “+”, then click “get tickets”. Follow the prompts to pay the nonrefundable deposit of $20 USD for this course. 

After getting tickets below, you’ll receive a confirmation email from the SAA. You’ll also be able to verify your enrollment on your profile under Upcoming Courses.

If the enrollment box isn’t visible and you only see the waitlist option, it means you’re missing a course prerequisite on your training profile (Unit 1). Please join the waitlist while you complete that class. You can check your training profile here to see what you are missing: https://suzukiassociation.org/person-profile/

If you have any trouble enrolling or if your profile needs to be updated, please write to [email protected] with the details. 

All transactions are final and non-refundable.

Details

Organizer

  • Studio of Merlin Thompson
  • Email Admin@TeachMusic21C.com

Additional Scheduling Info

This course consists of a total of 10 hours class time. We will meet on the following four Monday mornings from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. MST:

Monday March 16


Monday March 30


Monday April 13


Monday April 27
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