Teacher Training in Piano
Piano Unit 2 & Teaching Strategies
Saturday Aug. 9 to Friday Aug. 15, 2025
IN PERSON Caroline Fraser (CA)
IN PERSON Caroline Fraser (CA)
Teaching Strategies is designed to support and guide teacher participants in how to become more effective in their teaching. Strategies will reinforce the positive aspects and offer constructive feedback on each participant’s lessons.
Starting in January 2025, Teaching Strategies will be a prerequisite for Unit 3.
Prerequisites:
- SAA active membership
- Completion of Every Child Can!
- Must have completed and registered Unit 1 as a participant.
Required Course Preparation:
All teacher training participants are asked to prepare and memorize the repertoire to be studied to the point of fluent performance. Additionally, participants should be conversant with the ideas presented in Dr. Suzuki's book Nurtured by Love.
All participants will be performing Suzuki repertoire and other materials in class. Please have your instrument available during the classes. It is recommended that participants take notes during all sessions. Recording the Zoom classes will be at the discretion of the trainer. 100% attendance is required for registering the course. If your instructor has prepared additional materials for the course, they will be made available online or emailed to you.
For the Teaching Strategies part of the course:
Video Recordings:
All teacher training participants are asked to prepare and memorize the repertoire to be studied to the point of fluent performance. Additionally, participants should be conversant with the ideas presented in Dr. Suzuki's book Nurtured by Love.
All participants will be performing Suzuki repertoire and other materials in class. Please have your instrument available during the classes. It is recommended that participants take notes during all sessions. Recording the Zoom classes will be at the discretion of the trainer. 100% attendance is required for registering the course. If your instructor has prepared additional materials for the course, they will be made available online or emailed to you.
For the Teaching Strategies part of the course:
Video Recordings:
- Each participant brings 2 recordings of 6-10 minutes each. At least one of the recordings should be of an individual lesson. In some situations, longer lesson clips may be shown.
- If a participant is not currently teaching individual lessons, they need to contact the trainer to set up an alternative, such as teaching a student from the trainer’s studio, from another teacher’s studio, or teaching an Institute student.
Recommended Criteria
- Student working on Suzuki repertoire, with the teacher actively teaching (i.e. more teaching than student just playing)
- Student playing from memory
- Student and teacher are in camera view, if possible, and parent is present
- Since the Teaching Strategies is incorporated in this Unit 2 course, the repertoire in the recording should be from book 1.
Participants may bring any recording they choose. Some possible options are those that:
- Show challenging situations
- Include a topic they are having trouble getting across
- Best represent them as a teacher
- Show a group class
- Show an entire lesson (if time permits)
Technical Specifications:
Class Content:
Each TS class session is similar to a “pedagogy masterclass” where the participants watch their recordings together, receive positive comments from the trainer on what they did well, and then be given a suggestion or two on something they could improve.
- Recordings should be edited to 6-10 minutes.
- If participants cannot edit their videos, they should have the exact start and end times noted. In some situations, with advance permission from the Teacher Trainer, longer lesson clips may be shared.
- For online and in-person classes, it is recommended that participants upload videos to Google Drive, Dropbox, Vimeo, or YouTube, and after double-checking the links, send them to the Teacher Trainer. This allows the trainer to compile all the participants’ links.
Class Content:
Each TS class session is similar to a “pedagogy masterclass” where the participants watch their recordings together, receive positive comments from the trainer on what they did well, and then be given a suggestion or two on something they could improve.
Hours: 25 hours of class time, 8 hours of observations.
Registration: In-person registration on Saturday August 9 at 8:30 am. The class begins at 9 am. For those online, a link will be emailed to you.
Cost: $790 CDN
The course is subject to cancellation if there is insufficient enrolment by July 1st. Please register early and check this website frequently for updates.
For complete information about Teacher Training requirements (including video auditions), visit suzukiassociation.org/teachers/teacher-training
Registration: In-person registration on Saturday August 9 at 8:30 am. The class begins at 9 am. For those online, a link will be emailed to you.
Cost: $790 CDN
The course is subject to cancellation if there is insufficient enrolment by July 1st. Please register early and check this website frequently for updates.
For complete information about Teacher Training requirements (including video auditions), visit suzukiassociation.org/teachers/teacher-training
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NOTE: All information, classes, faculty, etc. are subject to change depending on enrolment.
All Teacher Training courses are subject to cancellation should there be insufficient registration.
If you need to book air or rail transportation to and from SOSI, please first confirm with our Administrator that the course is running and there is room in the course for you.
Under no circumstances are we responsible for your travel or other expenses if it turns out that a course needs to be cancelled for any reason.
All Teacher Training courses are subject to cancellation should there be insufficient registration.
If you need to book air or rail transportation to and from SOSI, please first confirm with our Administrator that the course is running and there is room in the course for you.
Under no circumstances are we responsible for your travel or other expenses if it turns out that a course needs to be cancelled for any reason.
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