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Welcome
to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS)
Newsletter!
May
2, 1999
Table
of Contents:
1.
MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. M-TIP Development
4. Notable Quotables
5. Business
6. Scherzo
1.
MTIPS Theme
As
our students prepare for recital events, state and
organizational adjudications, let's not forget that they
are children. In spite of the grade that someone else
gives their performance, focus your student's minds on
the effort and learning that occurred in preparation for
the performance. Allow them the opportunity to feel
successful regardless of their grade or rank. Nurture
their self esteem and watch their musical skills grow!
2.
Welcome Notes
Welcome
to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (M-TIPS)! Welcome
to our new subscribers! And thank you to our friends who
forward M-TIPS to their friends. That's how we grow and
have a greater impact on the music community. THANKS!
MTIPS
is a free monthly newsletter that's goal is to provide
piano teachers, (hopefully you!) with insightful
practices that will make the career of sharing music
with soon-to-be musicians a more rewarding and
successful one (both emotionally and financially). I
hope that this electronic publication assists you in
creating a more enjoyable and successful lesson for you
and your students. Please let me know how I can be of
service to you in reaching this goal.
You
may contact me at NickAmbrosino@musicsimplymusic.com.
I look forward to playing with you through this
newsletter. Let's have some fun!
3.
MTIPS Development
This
is the time of the year when students prepare for many
types of evaluations. State adjudications of
instrumentalists and vocalists are in full bloom. Piano
organizations have started evaluations of their members
and their member's students. Many times, I have seen
students get very down on themselves as a result of a
negative experience in these above mentioned situations.
Students are conditioned to go for the grade. Learning
for the sake of growing can become a secondary focus.
All rests on the grade; their opinions of themselves,
their teacher's approval and for some, even their
futures. It's no wonder they get nervous when the play
for others! We, as educators, can create a different
scenario for our students. We can take these
adjudications and make them into events to from which
they can learn about themselves and feel good about
their accomplishments. In spite of the grade that
someone else gives their performance, focus your
student's minds on the effort and learning that occurred
in preparation for the performance. Allow them the
opportunity to feel successful regardless of their grade
or rank. Nurture their self esteem and watch their
musical skills grow!
4.
Notable Quotables
"Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
-Emerson
"From
the mouth of babes"… How do you decide who to
marry? "You got to find somebody who likes the same
stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that
you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip
coming." -Alan, age 10
Is
it better to be single or married? "It's better for
girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone
to clean up after them." -Anita, age 9
5.
Business
Education
occurs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year
(24/7/12). Most school systems set their time schedule
to 7/5/10. Thus, many private music teachers see a
significant loss of income during the "off"
months. One way to offset those
"non-educational", low income months is to
make sure you plan your annual recital is a mid-year
celebration, instead of an end of the year summation.
Clients tend to experience the recital as a final event
when the recital is scheduled for the end of the public
school calendar. After the "final event" many
students will "take off" for the summer. (If
music lessons are enjoyable, what are they taking off
from?! But that's a topic for another MTIPS!) You can
shift this thinking by having your recital during the
school year.
6.
Scherzo
Ghandi
always walked barefoot, so his feet got very hard. He
also, in protest, ate very meager amounts of food. And,
as a result of poor hygiene, he suffered from bad
breath. Thus he was named the, "Super callused,
fragile mystic, plagued with halitosis!"
Copyright
© 1999 Nicholas Ambrosino. All rights reserved.
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MTIPS so long as this copyright notice and full
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author of this article is Nicholas Ambrosino and he may
be contacted at:
http://www.musicsimplymusic.com
director@musicsimplymusic.com
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