{"id":304,"date":"2010-04-07T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/2010\/04\/first-lesson-poll-results-our-new-topic.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:56:44","slug":"first-lesson-poll-results-our-new-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/first-lesson-poll-results-our-new-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lesson Poll Results & our new topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week come and gone – I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend, and I hope that <i>some<\/i> of you are enjoying nice, warm spring weather (because here in Utah it is spring one minute, and a crazy winter blizzard the next!!)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all who participated in our poll this week – I think it’s safe to say that <i>nobody<\/i> feels completely confident when they teach their very first lesson (<i>and about a third of us felt completely clueless!<\/i>), so you beginning teachers out there, take comfort! And if you are just starting out, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/theteachingstudio.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Teaching%20a%20FIRST%20Lesson\">this week’s posts<\/a> on Teaching a First Lesson for some inspiration and ideas. Now to the poll results:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">When I taught my VERY first lesson, I was:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQiEKWrccw4\/S7wjnX_wecI\/AAAAAAAAAMU\/dCFmeBfpWqo\/s1600\/first+lesson+poll.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/first-lesson-poll.jpg?resize=640%2C243&ssl=1\" width=\"640\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nOur topic for this next week will be:<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/theteachingstudio.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Method%20Books%20and%20Repertoire%20for%20Beginning%20Students\">Method Books & Repertoire for Beginning Students<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Holy cow, what a huge topic! But what an important topic. We are going to need a lot of comments and input on this one. We would LOVE to compile some sort of chart or list of different method books for beginners\/elementary students, and the pros and cons of each – it would be an awesome resource for all of us. It will probably be an ongoing project. So, in light of that, here is what we’d like to hear from you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>What piano methods do you use<\/b> for your students, or what methods do you like?<\/li>\n<li>Tell us some <b>pros & cons<\/b> of that method. Some ideas of things to mention:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><b>reading approach<\/b> (middle C vs. multi-key vs. intervallic)<\/li>\n<li><b>theory<\/b> that is included<\/li>\n<li><b>skills included<\/b> (such as ear training, transposition, harmonization, form, composition, improvisation, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>quality of <b>repertoire<\/b><\/li>\n<li>included <b>technology<\/b> (such as listening CD’s)<\/li>\n<li><b>overall<\/b> look & quality of series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>What type of student<\/b> would you assign it to? For example, I would give this method to a student who is 6-8 years old, who has a pretty good attention span and is a great practicer, but plays too much by ear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Also, don’t forget to take our weekly poll! Can’t wait to hear from you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week come and gone – I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend, and I hope that some of you are enjoying nice, warm spring weather (because here in Utah it is spring one minute, and a crazy winter blizzard the next!!) Thanks to all who participated in our poll this week –<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/first-lesson-poll-results-our-new-topic\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,106,115],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-method-books-and-repertoire-for-beginning-students","tag-poll-results","tag-teaching-a-first-lesson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/first-lesson-poll.jpg?fit=640%2C245&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qudh-4U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}