How The Teachers' Partnerships Work in Daily Piano Lessons?

2013/01/15 | コメント(0)  | トラックバック(0)  | 
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Partnership is everywhere, even in the daily piano lessons. PTNA piano teachers are now eager to take advantage of the partnership with other fellow teachers. It has been already in our culture from decades ago, as you can see in the application form of the PTNA Piano Competition that allows students to fill in two teachers' names on it. But recently the idea of this partnership becomes more evident and widespread than ever.

Among the variety of partnerships, we would like to introduce the following four types; partnership with their former teachers, with their mothers/fathers (of the same occupation), with their colleagues, with senior teachers of rich experiences.

Natsuko Miyake is recently taking her own students to her former teacher Jun Hasegawa on regular basis in order to ask for further advises. Having both perspectives as student and teacher, she is now able to understand fully what Prof.Hasegawa meant, and thus she digests and tells to her students in the way that they can easily understand. Prof.Hasegawa, on the other hand, is sometimes trying to show the pedagogical methodology in the lessons, not just performance advises, in hope of his former student's growth as a teacher.  
 
Yukiko Nakata (mother) and Saki Nakata (daughter) started the lesson partnership from 4 years ago. While the mother teaches elementary-intermediate level students, the daughter teaches those of advanced. This partnership works effectively, as the former learns the teaching methods and techniques of advanced level pieces, and the latter learns how to face with children and how to be a teacher.

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Naomi Yanaoka and Satomi Kitano is working together on a weekly basis. As being former colleagues, they share ideas and methods that makes them work efficiently in showing four-hands piano demonstrations, doing joint presentations / concerts / excursions, and even enjoying conversations with parents over wider topics.

Learning is not only for students but also for teachers. Miyako Kodaira takes her students to one of the experienced lecturers Keiko Sasaki once/twice per month, and tries to takes notes in details every time. Prof.Sasaki is accepting fellow teachers to come and see the lessons, as it enables to listen to their students' performances with four ears.

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According to a recent statistics, the further students get advanced, the more the number of lesson partnership increases. One of the biggest advantages of those partnerships is bringing in the different perspectives in conventional one-one lessons; it encourages students to widen their values and thoughts in music, and at the same time, teachers can learn interactively.  

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