{"id":105,"date":"2011-04-16T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-04-16T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:01:19","slug":"our-%e2%80%9cpiano-teams%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/our-%e2%80%9cpiano-teams%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR \u201cPIANO TEAMS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Julie Lovison\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soccer, basketball, baseball, chess, swim, track \u2026 our students have much familiarity with these teams.\u00a0 Did you know your children are also members of a \u201cpiano team?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

We began this term with inviting students to think of their class as a \u201cpiano team.\u201d\u00a0 Just like any sport, our team requires practice. All team members are responsible to the others to come to their lesson sufficiently prepared through their weekly follow up at home, to move on as a group. This means they need to have assimilated, memorized or mastered the requisite skills and concepts.\u00a0 This could be physical mastery of technique or memorizing some fundamentals such as note names, chords, scales, or key signatures (the structures of music.) Our curriculum layers new concepts upon previous ones every week in a systematic structure. The student\u2019s assignment sheet gives them the \u201cgame plan\u201d for practice every week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The practice \u201cgame plan\u201d includes many components beyond simply playing through their new piece once or twice. \u00a0Each component is budgeted into a few minutes of concentrated practice per day, with the new piece being one aspect of the total practice time.\u00a0\u00a0 Students need to budget \u00bd hour of practice time minimum at least 5 days a week to accomplish the required practice for our programs (6 and 7 year olds may begin with 20 minutes).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each team member makes sure the whole team \u201cgets\u201d each new concept, by helping to explain it in their own words, then by evaluating each other. Teaching one another crystallizes their own knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As in any team activity, when players miss practices, it fragments the team\u2019s cohesion. This is why it is important that attendance at lessons is a priority.\u00a0 It is better to come to even a portion of the lesson, or leave early, if your schedule has to be adjusted for some reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As team members we celebrate each other\u2019s victories such as when we achieve success with a new piece, master a technical skill or memorize important fundamentals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes we are a team.\u00a0 We do not have weekly contests to \u201cwin\u201d against outside opponents. Nevertheless, we do have challenges to meet against two opponents – – discouragement and commitment as we challenge ourselves to improve. Our score is kept by evaluating our growing musical knowledge; our improving skill level; and our ability to perform and enjoy beautiful music.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The improvement in student progress since focusing on our \u201cpiano teams\u201d this year has been dramatic.\u00a0 Students have been eager to share their accomplishments with their team members.\u00a0 Each lesson is infused with a creative, dynamic energy that has made teachers and students excited to be in this piano sport together.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When competing against ourselves we are often facing a formidable adversary. All teams thrive on energetic cheerleaders and fans. Parents, friends and family can help our teams and players by recognizing their efforts, supporting their activities and enthusiastically appreciating their exhibitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Julie Lovison\u00a0 Soccer, basketball, baseball, chess, swim, track \u2026 our students have much familiarity with these teams.\u00a0 Did you know your children are also members of a \u201cpiano team?\u201d\u00a0 We began this term with inviting students to think of their class as a \u201cpiano team.\u201d\u00a0 Just like any sport, our team requires practice. All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-group-piano-level-1","category-student-activities","category-teacher-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lakeshoremusicstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}