{"id":309,"date":"2010-04-01T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/2010\/04\/teaching-how-to-teac.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:56:44","slug":"teaching-how-to-teac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/teaching-how-to-teac\/","title":{"rendered":"teaching how to teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/2010\/03\/inspiring-our-students-through-joy.html\">my post<\/a> about one of my dear piano teachers, in which I mentioned that she emphatically stated at our first meeting, “I teach <i>teachers<\/i>.” I love that.<\/p>\n<p>It is because of her dedication and love for teaching that I became a teacher. And it was also because of her help and constant encouragement. She actually found my very first student for me (her next-door neighbor). She encouraged me and gave me advice. But one of the most helpful things that she did was this: one week, instead of my regular lesson, she taught me a lesson on <i>how to teach a first lesson<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on this, I think this was one of the best things she could have done for me. Teaching a first lesson can be nerve-wracking, especially if and when you don’t have a clue what you are doing. It was so helpful to have her sit down with me and go over exactly what you should do on a first lesson.<\/p>\n<p>I have had the privilege of teaching one of my own students a lesson on <i>how to teach a first lesson<\/i>. By this time I had quite a bit of experience to draw from, including pedagogy classes in college, but I still used quite a bit of the same material that my teacher taught me that day. It was actually a really cool feeling to encourage one of my own students to teach, just as my teacher had encouraged me. I would highly recommend encouraging some of your students to teach by teaching them <i>how<\/i> to teach a first lesson – after all, sometimes we just need a little push in the right direction!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQiEKWrccw4\/S7QxCBvvNSI\/AAAAAAAAAL0\/klvyig1jOlI\/s1600\/renoir-yvonne-and-christine-lerolle-playing-the-piano.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theplayfulpiano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/renoir-yvonne-and-christine-lerolle-playing-the-piano.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nWhat or who encouraged you to begin teaching? Did you have any help in learning what to do at the first lesson?<\/p>\n<p><i>Don’t forget to take this week’s poll – and you can actually vote for more than one answer this week!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will remember my post about one of my dear piano teachers, in which I mentioned that she emphatically stated at our first meeting, “I teach teachers.” I love that. It is because of her dedication and love for teaching that I became a teacher. 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