Violin Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies (Violin)

This 10-hour pedagogy masterclass is designed to enhance teaching skills in a supportive, trust-based environment. Participants present their own work for feedback, gaining practical insights to improve effectiveness.

It is a prerequisite for Unit 3 training.

Each participant will prepare and share video teaching segments at the level of their current pedagogy training. Using the SAA Pedagogy Descriptors, participants will practice the skills of observation and assessment to celebrate teaching successes and explore ways to become more effective. 100% attendance and participation is required to receive course credit with the SAA.

Teaching Strategies can be taken in conjunction or separately from Book 2 training.

Teaching Strategies asks that trainess prepare the following material prior to arriving for training:

Video Recordings:

• Each participant brings 2 recordings of 6-10 minutes each. At least one of the recordings should be of an individual lesson. In some situations, longer lesson clips may be shown.
• If a participant is not currently teaching individual lessons, they need to contact the trainer to set up an alternative, such as teaching a student from the trainer’s studio, from another teacher’s studio, or teaching an Institute student.
• Recommended criteria
  • Student working on Suzuki repertoire, with the teacher actively teaching (i.e. more teaching than student just playing)
  • Student playing from memory
  • Student and teacher are in camera view, if possible, and parent is present
  • If Teaching Strategies is incorporated in a Unit 2 course, the repertoire in the recording should be from book 1.
• Participants may bring any recording they choose. Some possible options are those that:
  • Show challenging situations
  • Include a topic they are having trouble getting across
  • Best represent them as a teacher
  • Show a group class
  • Show an entire lesson (if time permits)

Faculty: Daina is a highly qualified Suzuki violin and viola teacher and teacher trainer. She has been involved with Suzuki Talent Education for over thirty years, as a student and teacher, and now as a parent. She is a registered Suzuki Violin Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the Co-Director of the North Texas School of Talent Education, a Suzuki violin and viola program founded by Charles Krigbaum in 2001.

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