Practicum

The class is a hybrid class with either in-person or online participation. Course will run from 3/10-3/14. Classes will be from 10 am to 1 pm EDT.

The Practicum is a core course that can be taken after completing the ECC course, Book 1. Participants must have a current Suzuki studio and have taught Suzuki students for a minimum of one year.

Activities in SAA Practicum Units™ consist of a combination of discussion of participants’ videoed lessons of his/her home students, teaching exercises, and on-site teaching. On-site teaching is to include volunteer students who would receive extra lessons. Volunteer students may or may not be students from participant’s or trainer’s own studio.

Video lesson segments should include a complete 30-minute private lesson working on Suzuki repertoire and one 30-minute segment of participant’s choice. Possibilities are a consecutive lesson of the same student, a group lesson, a reading lesson, a challenging student, a behavior-issue lesson, a parent-issue lesson, a lesson at a different book level, a student recital, etc. More footage may be prepared, but amount of viewing will depend on time constraints, class size, etc.

The required 8 hours of observations can be done online with videos I will provide or can be done locally with teachers in home area of the online participants. They do not need to be instrument specific. For teachers who are local to the central Connecticut area, I can be observed for private and group lessons.

Join the roster below, then arrange payment directly with David Madsen.