The teacher in you is tired.
The artist in you is muted.
A virtual retreat for piano teachers to reset their creative rhythms, rediscover the joy of improvisation and creating, and return to their students with a full heart.
No travel. No lesson plans.
Three days of intentional creating, artistic mentorship, and unmuting the joy of play at the piano.
You’ve poured your heart into every recital, every theory lesson, and every 'one more time' from a struggling student. But in the noise of teaching, it’s easy for your own musical voice to become a whisper.
If using improvisation with students keeps resulting in a cacophony of chaos and making space for creating and composing activities in lessons never comes to fruition, it's time for a reset: to remember why you love what you do.
Retreat
Schedule
Details
Monday, July 27-Wednesday, July 29
All sessions and workshops are virtual on Zoom and will be live each day from 10:45am-12:30pm EST. All sessions, workshops and Q+A's will be available for replay for retreat participants. All Zoom links, digital handouts, retreat resources and replays will available through your account.
Sessions and Workshops
Retreat Theme: "Improvisation: Reset your Teaching Rhythms and Rediscover the Joy of Play and Improvising."
The elements of play, creating (composing) and improvising are pivotal aspects not only for our students' musical growth and music education, but they're key (no pun intended) skills for teachers, too. We've carefully crafted sessions on the pedagogy of improvisation and composing/creating at the piano and paired them with judgment-free, hands-on workshops so we can work on our improvising and creating skills together, and then use those tools to help inspire our students' musical explorations!
Day 1: Multi-sensory learning in teaching new repertoire and improvisation; Improvisation + Teaching
Day 2: Experiencing and Teaching Improvisation: Chord Charts, Leveled-improv, Intentional Improv
Day 3: Composition for Teachers and Students: Using Creating to Encourage Musical Growth
Included with the Reset
Here's a sneak-peak of what you can look forward to:
•6 live sessions and workshops
•Exclusive resources, downloads and tools
•Informal coffee chats to start each day
•Daily Q+A's and submit questions ahead of time
•Exclusive Member Portal with group discussions, replays of all sessions, resources, and messaging with the hosts
•Access to Creative Piano Pedagogy's Member Resource Library of digital resources
•Open MusicShare session on the final day for participants to share compositions or improvisations created during the retreat in a judgment-free space (participate or just attend- your choice)
