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My Experience as a Music
Teacher
I have been a piano teacher since
I was 15 years old, when my Grade 10 typing teacher, Mr. Deakins,
encouraged me and helped me recruit my very first student.
Since then I have never stopped teaching music to others around
me.
I have taught private piano lessons
to beginners through to Grade 9 Royal Conservatory level,
as well as Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Theory (formerly
known as Preliminary Rudiments, Grade 1 and Grade 2 Theory.)
My early childhood teaching experience
includes music and movement classes for babies, toddlers,
and preschoolers. These classes feature percussion, dancing
and singing circles, which provide foundational experience
with tonal and rhythmic patterns, as well as enjoyment for
parent and child which encourages music making in the home.
For ten years, I have taught music
to grade school children in Ontario schools, focusing on the
Knowledge, Skills, and Creative Thinking outcomes in the provincial
curriculum.
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Professional
Affiliations
~Ontario College of Teachers
~Ontario Music Educators’
Association
~ Ontario Registered Music Teacher's
Association, Active Member: Piano and Rudiments
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My
Musical and Educational Training
A.R.C.T., Piano Performer, Royal
Conservatory of Music, 1993, First Class Honours
Bachelor of Education, University
of Windsor, 1997, President's
Roll
Early Childhood Music Certificates,
Musikgarten, University of Toronto, 1998, Wheaton College
2002
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What
the Piano Means to Me
Although I began studying the violin
at age 4, I cried for the next four years of my life until
my mother agreed to let me switch to piano lessons. I play
the piano when I am happy, sad, angry, anxious, excited
or confused; when I want my kids to go to sleep, and when
I want my kids to wake up; when I want to create something;
when I want to communicate something; when I need to think
something through. It comes naturally to me to share this
important part of my life with others.
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"If a composer could say what he had to say
in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
~ Gustav Mahler
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