Q+A Ep 39 Teaching Kids with Dyslexia
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Episode 39: Teaching Kids with Dyslexia
Download the 37 Common Traits & 7 Top Piano Teaching Resources for students with Dyslexia.
Anastasia Cunningham is a piano teacher and mum of two grown-up girls. All three have Dyslexia. Anastasia shares her story of being a parent as well as a piano teacher and shares her best piano lesson activities for children with dyslexia.
0:05 Welcome
0:50 Overview about Dyslexia
1:30 Remembering and Dyslexia
2:15 Introduction of guest, Anastasia Cunningham
2:48 Can you tell us how your story started?
6:10 Dyslexia and Reading
6:45 Dyslexia and Labeling
7:40 Dyslexia and Creativity
9:20 How does your brain work with decoding?
11:18 Dyslexia may be very different for each person
12:43 Processing speed is often key
15:30 Dyslexia and coping
18:10 Keep things simple and keep re-visiting them.
19:00 Don’t interpret poor memory as lack of interest
19:30 Multi-sensory approaches are the key to success (eg. Whole Body Learning)
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Q+A Ep 38 Collaborative Playing Skills & Creating Duets & Ensembles
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Episode 38 Collaborative Playing Skills & Creating Duets & Ensembles
Paul Myatt shares a Q+A version of his NCKP session called, “Creating multilevel duets and ensembles from standard piano repertoire” which he presented at NCKP 2021: The Piano Conference. This was part of the collaborative playing sessions at NCKP. The NCKP conference is still available online.
Download the Collaborative Playing Pieces & Notes
00:00 Welcome
00:28 How to help students who are often reluctant to play with others and embrace these opportunities rather than shying away from them
01:20 Today’s show is a Q+A version of Paul’s workshop held last week for NCKP 2021 on Creating Multi-level Duet & Ensembles from standard piano repertoire.
01:37 Paul talks about collaborative playing experience for all piano students and shares some ways to start collaborative playing that are easy and fun piano activities that students will really...
Q+A Ep 37 Strategies for Helping Students with Learning Difficulties
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Episode 37 Strategies for Helping Students with Learning Difficulties
00:00 Welcome to Part 3 of teaching piano to children who have learning difficulties.
00:44 Janet Olsen from Utah, USA joins the panel as both a piano teacher who teaches kids with special needs and a mom of two special needs children.
01:19 How Janet started teaching special needs students
01:49 When parents say that you’re their last hope to do music…
03:01 How to get students’ attention
03:52 What learning difficulties are you working with? Autism, ADHD, Anxiety Issues and other learning difficulties
04:50 What are the key things to remember when teaching
06:52 What’s the big prize? Choosing rewards
08:30 Janet shares using Whole Body Learning with her students
10:01 Students are achieving better results than Janet expected.
10:35 How backing tracks help students to learn more effectively and help learn songs easy piano
13:31 Teaching Mozart to students who have issues...
Q+A Ep 35 Getting Students to Practice
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EPISODE 35: Getting Students to Practice
00:00 Welcome to Episode 35
00:30 Whole Body Learning AMEB Piano for Leisure
02:20 Welcome Psychologist & Piano Teacher, Lucinda Mackworth-Young
04:16 The Inner Game of Piano Teaching Course with Lucinda Mackworth-Young
05:00 Emotional engagement with your students
06:25 Piano Teachers Course
09:00 Helping teachers to learn about new teaching piano techniques rather than how they were taught.
10:15 40% of teachers find that practice is their greatest challenge
11:25 How Lucinda came to write “Tuning In”.
12:09 About “The Inner Game of Piano Teaching” Course
12:50 Lucinda’s vision for “The Inner Game of Piano Teaching” Course
15:21 Why does practice (or the lack of it) leave us so frustrated.
16:00 Common problems with students practising the piano
22:55 Way to engage the student in homework
25:42 Summary of homework strategies for songs easy piano
28:20 Reasons to practice sight read...
Q+A Ep 34 PART 1: Teaching Students With Learning Difficulties
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EPISODE 34: Teaching Piano Students with Learning Difficulties
00:00 Welcome
00:32 Join the Accelerated Success Challenge it's free.
02:12 Paul Myatt shares his experience becoming a piano teacher for special needs students.
04:20 Shauna Hunter (Canada) shares her experience of using Whole Body Learning with learning challenged students.
06:29 The widespread nature of learning challenged students
07:38 Dr Erin Parkes (Lotus Centre, Canada) shares her experience of both as a parent of a special needs child and the founder of the charity, The Lotus Centre for students with special needs. The Lotus Centre also offers piano courses and webinars, check them out here.
11:32 30% of the population has some sort of learning challenge - really???
14:32 Strategies to help a child who may be undiagnosed.
19:46 Caryn Eastman shares her tool kit from her experience of many years of teaching. Caryn offers mentoring to piano teachers for individual help with Special Needs students....
Q+A Ep 33 Duets & Keyboard Ensembles
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EPISODE 31: The Power of Why & Getting to 1,000 Students
00:00 Welcome to guest Glory St Germain
02:45 Glory shares her learnings from running the Global Music Summit (free access to teachers, VIP available)
05:12 The Power of Why - the first in a series of anthologies from musicians and teachers from around the world sharing their "why?".
08:00 The story of a homeless person becoming an international teacher and composer.
09:30 Glory shares her secrets for positive energy and mindset
10:41 Gillian speaks to David Statham about creating the best music school and how he got to 1,000 students with piano sheets beginner
23:15 How mindset affects us in our work and our studios.
25:35 Dr. Carol Richards shares her vast experience from her personal story of learning to fly a plane in her 60s to teaching chord progression piano and how to teach at university and her Ph.D. on how teachers teach. A fascinating interview!
Q+A Ep 32 Teaching Technique to Beginners
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EPISODE 32: Teaching Technique to Beginners
00:00 Welcome to our guests, Dr. Rae de Lisle & Melody Deng each sharing their journey to the development of the Fit 4 Piano book.
08:40 Glory speaks to Paul about the new book, The Power of Why - the first in a series of anthologies from musicians and teachers from around the world sharing their "why?". You can pre-order your copy here.
12:15 Rae answers, "How do we know where to start with good technique?"
17:21 Melody shares her experience of using Fit 4 Piano with beginners and piano recitals.
18:45 Using the technique of "falling" onto the piano key.
23:56 Joint support and collapsed knuckles.
28:20 Applying the technique to Bach's Minuet in G
29:00 Teaching staccato technique in piano teacher blog
33:50 Working with more advanced repertoire on staccato
35:29 Annette from Singapore's question: "How do you teach a student who has right and left-hand coordination problems?"
37:56 Diane Ellerton asked, "When ...
Q+A Ep 31 The Power of Why & Our Mindset
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EPISODE 31: The Power of Why & Getting to 1,000 Students
00:00 Welcome to guest Glory St Germain
02:45 Glory shares her learnings from running the Global Music Summit (free access to teachers, VIP available)
05:12 The Power of Why - the first in a series of anthologies from musicians and teachers from around the world sharing their "why?".
08:00 The story of a homeless person becoming an international teacher and composer.
09:30 Glory shares her secrets for positive energy and mindset on teaching beginning piano
10:41 Gillian speaks to David Statham about creating the best music school and how he got to 1,000 students with group piano lessons.
23:15 How mindset affects us in our work and our studios.
25:35 Dr. Carol Richards shares her vast experience from her personal story of learning to fly a plane in her 60s to teaching teachers how to teach at university and her Ph.D. on how teachers teach. A fascinating interview!
Q+A Ep 30 Whole Body Learning in Action
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EPISODE 30: Whole Body Learning in Action
00:00 Welcome to guests Heather & Sophie and what they were doing before piano teaching - how music often drives us back to our passion and beginner piano lesson ideas. MTNA Conference Link
08:45 Heather shares her experience of using scale backing tracks for students who are challenged with scales.
11:00 Leanna Minnick shares how using Whole Body Learning and backing tracks saved a young boy from being sacked from piano lessons.
14:00 Heather shares her experience of teaching the Mozart Minuet K6 using Whole Body Learning to her students. Access to full episode on this piece is here.
20:00 Kitty Pang from Hong Kong has been attending Paul's Whole Body Learning ABRSM course for Gr 1-5 and has shared two teaching demonstrations a Grade 1 & 3 piece. More courses will be available soon for ABRSM, AMEB, ANZCA, RCM & Rockschool.
26:00 Sophie shares some of her own Whole Body Learning teaching music lessons...
Q+A Ep 29 Neuroscience and Music Pedagogy
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EPISODE 29: Using Neuroscience to Engage your piano students.
00:25 Register Now for the Accelerated Success 5 Day Teaching Challenge
00:55 Neuroscience around learning with Dr. Robyn Staveley
02:04 How does our brain learn and the impact of movement on learning and teaching sight reading?
03:32 Why are the eyes and hands so important in learning?
07:14 Should we incorporate screens and videos in our piano teaching?
10:54 Away from the piano learning, is that useful?
15:00 How does a Natural Learning Process assist the brain to learn more effectively on piano lesson structure?
20:14 How does singing connect to understanding music?
24:00 Are all these embodied techniques really the most efficient way to learn and do they reward students more for learning?
27:58 How do we help the students feel like they're playing music, and not just "learning"?
31:18 How can we use group lessons and socialising to help the brain learn?
33:46 What is an Enriched Learning Environment?...
