Prepare yourself for the rabbit hole that is TEACHER TRAIN OF THOUGHT. You've been warned. I'm joking around lightly, of course. But it is funny to me how, in retrospect, I end up exploring new opportunities and approaches. So COVID-19 happened. As we all know. And with that came a series of massive teaching environment changes. My home studio and what was on my music stand and how far I had to reach for my tuner was all totally set up and perfect pre-COVID. It was an environment that allowed me to create this lovely Suzuki environment for all my students. That environment changed. With those changes I had to start thinking of different ways I was going to reach students. This is always the challenge with teaching, of course. But it became obvious to me which students were fine with steadily progressing through their pieces and which students maybe needed additional structure to their lessons. Enter the exploration of "non-Suzuki" ap...
Thoughts and experiences while exploring the Suzuki Method of teaching.