Private Music Lessons

Private Music Lessons: A Manual for Teachers is written for any music teacher working with students in a private lesson setting. Lesson activities for teaching movement, rhythm, tonal understanding, reading notation, musical expression, creative music-making, and music listening are provided as well as chapters devoted to musical, cognitive, physical, and social and emotional development in elementary, middle school, and high school learners. Strategies are provided for starting a studio and maintaining a studio and ensuring student success at events such as solo and ensemble festivals.

Features:

- Strategies for differentiation of instruction

- Sample solo and ensemble adjudication forms

- Sample private lesson studio handbook

- A focus on adult learners in private lessons

- Discussion cases regarding relationships with parents, school educators and students

- Sample lesson templates for 30- 45- and 60- minute lessons

- Sample practice records and lesson assignment forms

- Sample syllabus for a college course on teaching private lessons