Description
Private Music Lessons: A Manual for Teachers is written for any music teacher working with students in a private lesson setting. Lesson activities for teaching movement, rhythm, tonal understanding, reading notation, musical expression, creative music-making, and music listening are provided as well as chapters devoted to musical, cognitive, physical, and social and emotional development in elementary, middle school, and high school learners. Strategies are provided for starting a studio and maintaining a studio and ensuring student success at events such as solo and ensemble festivals.
Features
- Strategies for differentiation of instruction
- Sample solo and ensemble adjudication forms
- Sample private lesson studio handbook
- A focus on adult learners in private lessons
- Discussion cases regarding relationships with parents, school educators and students
- Sample lesson templates for 30- 45- and 60- minute lessons
- Sample practice records and lesson assignment forms
- Sample syllabus for a college course on teaching private lessons
About the Author
Colleen Conway is a professor of music education at the University of Michigan. She has taught private lessons to elementary, middle school, high school, and undergraduate students for over 30 years. She holds bachelors and master’s degrees in horn performance and music education from the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Over 100 research articles by Dr. Conway on the topics of music education curriculum, assessment, research, and policy appear in all of the major music education journals. Dr. Conway is the Editor-in-Chief of Arts Education Policy Review. This is her eighth book.
