Teaching Piano Pedagogy: A Guidebook for Training Effective Teachers by Courtney Crappell

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Eleanor Hodgkinson

This is an interview with Dr Wilma Vialle, Ph.D, Professor in Educational Psychology and Gifted Education in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Dr Vialle is the author of several books, articles, and chapters on gifted education and child psychology. Her research interests are centred on giftedness and talent development and she is predominantly interested in issues concerning social justice. Recent research projects include an international study of effective teachers of the gifted, a longitudinal study of adolescent academic and social emotional outcomes, the development of expertise in competitive Scrabble players, popular culture and giftedness, and the development of spiritual understanding in children. Dr Vialle is the chief editor of the journal Talent Development and Excellence and is on the editorial board of several international journals. She is also on the Executive Board of the International Research Association for Talent Development and Excellence (IRATDE). In 2006, Dr Vialle was awarded the Eminent Australian award by the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) for her contributions to gifted education.


Author(s):  
Courtney Crappell

For teachers of piano pedagogy, this book provides tools to transform college piano students into professional piano teachers. It is not simply a book about teaching piano—instead, it is a book about how piano students learn to teach. It helps teachers develop pedagogy course curricula, design and facilitate practicum-teaching experiences, and guide research projects in piano pedagogy. After an introduction to the history of the domain, to its related topics, and to course materials, the book gives unique perspectives on how pedagogy teachers can introduce students to course concepts and then how to help them put those concepts into practice. To facilitate easy integration into the curriculum, it provides example classroom exercises and assignments throughout the text, which are designed to help students understand and practice the related topics and skills.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Darina Georgieva ◽  
◽  
Maria Dishkova

The article provides a brief description of Dr. Thomas Gordon’s programs: Parents Effective Training, Training Effective Teachers, Training Effective Children and Youth. They have proved their efficiency in recent decades, combining traditional techniques with innovative methods of pedagogical interaction with children. On this basis, a study was conducted with 23 Bulgarian trainers in these programs. Their opinion is extremely important because they have observation of the target groups and the positive impact of what they have learned on their relationships with students, teachers, parents, children, youth. The survey was conducted with the help of a questionnaire, which consists of open and closed questions. The obtained results are summarized and analyzed.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 928-928
Author(s):  
Jerold F. Lucey

Those who have tried to organize a different kind of conference know how difficult that can be. Many presenters can be programmed congenital lecturers. Once on a platform, they dim the lights, flash the first slide, and deliver a 40-minute lecture. That's not what we wanted in this conference. The goal was to teach pediatricians how to teach. Although this is something most practitioners have been doing, it is unlikely that they ever took courses in how to educate patients. That's a very important part of a practice. If this effort is successful, the reader will learn some of the tricks of the trade from the masters. Our presenters were selected not just because they are experts on their respective subjects, but also because they are effective teachers. In the following six papers, they teach us how to provide effective education for patients with common pediatric complaints.


2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (14) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Natriello ◽  
Karen Zumwalt

The need for large numbers of individuals who can serve as effective teachers for the nation's young people has generated continuing interest in the recruitment, preparation, and retention of talented teachers for the past half-century, particularly since the civil rights and women's rights revolutions opened a wide range of career opportunities to many for whom teaching was historically one of the few fields available. Among the policy options under development in recent decades have been alternative routes into teaching, typically preparation experiences that differ in form and/or format from the established college-based certification programs. In this Teachers College Record Yearbook, we present the results of a longitudinal examination of one early alternative route program developed by the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Provisional Teacher Program (or Alternate Route) is of particular interest both because it was the first of a generation of such programs created by various states in the final years of the 20th century and because its creation surfaced a range of issues and tensions that all the programs following in its wake have experienced.


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