Studio Teaching: An Essential Career Component

1.0 credits

This course incorporates illuminating essential, impactful, and innovative studio teaching strategies for future music educators who face a continually evolving professional mentorship landscape. Gain vital and practical insight into establishing a successful private music studio, affiliating with a university or community music school, teaching at a music store, developing relevant pre-collegiate and collegiate programs, and more. Topics include teaching and deep learning strategies for diverse learners, basics of major international music education methods, the role of psychology in music education, assessing and measuring results, preparing students for college auditions, and building a business and a brand. This course interactively delves into effective approaches not only integral to future students’ musical trajectories, but profitably to one’s own professional musical path.