I am so excited about this, I just have to share. Valery Loyd-Watts and Carole Bigler, co-authors of Alfred's Mastering the Piano series have put together an amazing teacher's manual to help teachers teach this series. I have read through most of it and I can honestly say it is one of the most useful pedagogy texts I've read thus far and I've read a lot! It has so much information such as learning styles, how we learn music, how our brains process information while learning and playing the piano. She also has some great ideas for practice and teaching games. I especially love her Scramble game which I'm excited to try out on a student tomorrow. I'm going to put my own twist on it, so stay tuned for another post on exactly what I'll be doing.
Whether you use this series or not, you definately need to check out this manual ......oh, and I forgot to mention the best part, IT'S FREE!! Ms Watts has generously made it available to download for free from her website, here's the link:
http://valerylloydwatts.com/books/mastering-the-piano-manual/
Leave a comment and let me know if it was as useful to you as it was to me!
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