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Welcome to Music
Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS) Newsletter!
Written and Published by Nicholas Ambrosino
www.musicsimplymusic.com
director@musicsimplymusic.com
January 5, 2003
Table of Contents:
1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables
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1. MTIPS Theme
So what can you do to ensure that 2003 is a year of
incredible dream achievement for you and your students?
Manage your state. Teach your students how to manage
their states. By teaching, we give both a gift to the
learner and the learnee, for they both get to grow!
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2. Welcome Notes
Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS)
Newsletter!
A very Happy New Year to all! And a very big heartfelt
"Thank You!" for helping me reach my 2002 goal
of 400 subscribers! As of midnight, December 31, 2002
MTIPS had 402 subscribers! Thank you to everyone who
shares MTIPS with their colleagues and friends. We are
an on-line community who is committed to creating the
most positive learning environment for our students
while also creating an environment in which we can
achieve our own goals as professionals, and… we are
growing! Yeah!
This year, I have set the goal of 600 total subscribers.
Would you take a moment to forward this issue to anyone
whom would benefit from a positive ezine to assist them
in utilizing their fullest potentials as teachers and
students? Thanks!
And finally, a warm welcome to all of our new
subscribers. My goal is to provide you with practical
tips and insights that will make your career or
education in music, more fulfilling, rewarding and
enjoyable. Please feel free to contact me if you would
like to see a certain topic covered in an upcoming issue
of MTIPS. My email address is editor@musicsimplymusic.com
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check it often!
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3. MTIPS Development
Okay, so it is a New Year, and I am sure that everyone
has set goals. (I've been working on mine since mid
November!) And I am also sure that everyone knows the
old cliché about most people not making it to the end
of January without either forgetting about or at least
loosing steam about their goals. So what can you do to
make 2003 the most fantastic, productive, goal-achieving
year for you and your students since the day you were
born?
It's all about state management.
For those of you following the past three issues, you
know that I have been promoting learning readiness. Yet,
in a meeting with my staff, here on beautiful Long
Island, New York, we recently broke learning readiness
down to a more important point, state management.
Having a positive state of learning readiness in a
lesson is two-fold. Both the teacher (I prefer to call
us "facilitators") and the student have to be
ready. This requires, first, that the facilitator takes
premium care of him/herself.
Taking care of yourself is a three-fold process. You
need to manage your mental, emotional and physical
states. Only, once you are managing your state, are you
truly in a position to assist your students in managing
their states.
The younger the student, the more necessary it will be
for you to assist them in creating a positive state of
learning readiness. Most important in a lesson with a
young student is to manage the environment for the
student. Remove distracting sounds. If you service the
student in his/her home, make sure the television is
turned off or at least turned on at a lower volume. If
younger siblings are in the home during the lesson, ask
if they can be kept occupied and quiet. If the student's
piano is filled with books that are not being used for
the lesson, remove them and put them in a
non-distracting pile somewhere away from the piano.
With older students, other factors play heavily into the
student's learning readiness. Stress, from school and
peers, emotional mood swings and lack of sleep are all
very common obstacles that can get in the way of
creating a positive learning environment. Learn how to
active listen and problem solve at the beginning of each
lesson. (There are many excellent books on this subject
at your local library.) As the student gets more
confident with his/her state management skills, the time
at the beginning of the lesson that it takes to create
this excellent learning environment will become shorter
and shorter; until finally it will be all of 30 seconds
before the student is ready to get to some musical
achievement!
So, what can you do to ensure that 2003 is a year of
incredible dream achievement for you and your students?
Manage your state. Teach your students how to manage
their states. By teaching, we give both a gift to the
learner and the learnee, for they both get to grow!
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4. Notable Quotable
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to
an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
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