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Q+A Ep 42 Part 2 Whole Body Learning Revolution

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Episode 42: Part 2 Whole Body Learning Revolution

00:06 Welcome
01:00 Meet Katrina Panitz
02:12 How using Whole Body Learning helped Katrina make teaching piano lessons fun and exciting for students
02:45 Teaching a piece using Whole Body Learning
05:29 How Whole Body Learning helped make teaching piano exciting, motivating and engaging to students?
08:13 Katrina’s thoughts on Whole Body Learning
09:20 Meet Mutsumi Lui
10:29 Using Whole Body Learning activity to teach Elissa Milne’s piece, Deadline
12:13 Mutsumi shares about her Whole Body Learning activity for a piece.
14:38 The differences in the way students learn pieces when using Whole Body Learning
16:30 Meet Kitty Pang
18:34 Kitty shares about her Whole Body Learning activity for an exam piece called Anastasia
22:25 How using Whole Body Learning activities help her student learn faster than a traditional approach to teaching piano
24:13 Watch Kitty’s 5-year old piano student fully engaged...

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Q+A Ep 41 Partnering with Parents

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Episode 41: Partnering with Parents

00:14 Welcome
00:45 Heather Revel
01:20 Heather shares starting to teaching music lessons
02:30 What prompted Heather to develop her Parent Program
04:35 The Parents as are “actually the Client”
10:05 Differences Heather noticed since implementing the program
11:00 What info Heather is after of in the parent’s questionnaire
13:40 Talking about the goals within a timeline for their child in the program
17:05 You can download the https://ptsqa.live/ep41 Parents Questionnaire

17:17 Putting together a Parent Newsletter
19:06 Follow up Sheets instead of a homework notebook
21:30 Including personal notes for the parents
22:05 Heather’s Parent Coaching Program
25:28 Involving Parents in their child’s class/lesson
27:57 Benefits to students when the parents are involved
36:00 How the Studio (https://ptsqa.live/studio) and Whole Body Learning is helping in Heather’s teaching environment

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Q+A Ep 40 Part 1 Whole Body Learning Revolution

 

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Episode 40: Part 1 Whole Body Learning Revolution

Piano teachers who have tried out Whole Body Learning share their experiences with Gillian Erskine. Paul Myatt fills in for Gillian as host and interviews podcaster and piano teacher, Leila Viss.

Meet teachers who are using Whole Body Learning in their studio. See their teachers in action and hear real-life stories of students who are engaged and motivated to practice and learn piano activities.

0:06 Welcome & Join the Whole Body Learning Kickstarter week:
1:30 The Whole Body Learning Revolution
4:25 Video of Piano teacher and student doing Whole Body Learning
4:57 Student playing piano songs for beginners
7:54 Dorothy Chia shares her experience of teaching using Whole Body Learning
9:40 Qi Chen shares how she learned to play piano using the traditional approach
10:44 Video of a Piano student using Whole Body Learning
11:50 Qi Chen shared how she switched to teaching piano from Engineering degree
13:00 Video of Piano...

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Q+A Ep 6 Using Puppets & Staying Connected with Technology

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Angela Turner, Dr Kerry Vann and Kia Leong were a brilliant panel offering some very useful suggestions for working with students from beginner through to advanced as well as individual and class lessons. 

This week, we have launched a free service to teachers called Online Lessons Teacher Resource Kit which accompanies the Online Lesson Resource page we created several weeks ago. The kit includes a heap of printable downloads in A4 & US Letter size: 64 flashcards, 2 & 3 paper keyboards, 1, 2, 6 & 12 stave manuscript paper and a template to download to start your student communication strategy using Google Sheets. You can access the Teacher Resource Kit here.

Overview for Episode 6

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this weeks show (timings in the broadcast):

00:00 Welcome to our guests
02:40 A look at each of the panel members' set up Dr Kerry Vann
07:10 Angela's studio set up including using Many Cam, different microphones
12:00 Kia...

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Q+A Ep 2 Combatting Technical Problems When Teaching Online

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Question overview from Episode 2

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this week's show (timings in the broadcast):

4:00 Teaching more advanced students, the best way to go about this. Tech set up and using video recordings as well as sharing video in a lesson and sharing computer audio.

12:40 Experienced online teacher, Brenda Hunting, shares her studio set up as she has been teaching online since 2014 and includes beat and rythm activities

18:10 How to do online recitals.

21:45 Combatting time lag & doing rhythm work and piano practice checklist

23:50 Avoiding the issue of mirroring of the keyboard while teaching piano

23:50 Pedal cam, suggestions on how to do that.

28:20 Getting better sound in Zoom

37:25 AMEB and old syllabuses extended into 2021

39:10 Tony Betros General Manager from ANZCA shares the ANZCA solution

41:50 Barry Walmsley, Australian Manager for Trinity College London shares what Trinity is doing for exams.

44:30...

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Q+A Ep 1 How to Smoothly Transition to Online Teaching During COVID-19

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EPISODE 1: Transitioning to online teaching - how to get help

Bernard Depasquale (CEO AMEB),
Anastasia Beuttner-Moore (WA Piano Teacher & Wellness Expert) and
Tim Topham (Top Music Podcast).

Resources from TODAY's episode

From Tim Topham:

Videos to watch:

5 Quick Tips for Producing Video Piano Lessons

How to set up and use Zoom for online music lessons

3 ways to connect overhead cameras in music lessons

From Bernard & the AMEB:

Free Theory of Music Courses

Helpful resources for teaching online

Break The Isolation: A webinar series hosted by AMEB
Ep 1. Teaching Online with Rosanne Hammer
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Ep 2. Teaching Online – Getting Started with Emily Laney
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From Anastasia:
Getting started with online teaching

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