Violin Teaching Stategies

Course requirements: ECC, Book 1, Book 2

Teaching Strategies is required to enroll in Book 3.

Participants submit 6-10 minute video excerpts of a Suzuki lesson preferably from Suzuki book 1 or 2.  Participants who have taken higher Unit courses are welcome to submit videos to corresponding course work they have taken.

Class Content:

Each class session is similar to a “pedagogy masterclass” where the participants watch their recordings together, receive positive comments from the trainer on what they did well, then be given a suggestion or two on something they could improve

For teachers, these may be basic items central to Suzuki teaching:

• Including the parent
• Addressing basic posture issues
• Giving specific praise
• Using positive language when making corrections or observations
• Talking less, demonstrating more
• When to use and not use the score (how students learn a new piece)
• Breaking a concept down
• Using repetition in a lesson
• Using review in a lesson
• Moving on only when a step is mastered
• Working on Tone
• Giving succinct assignments to student and parent