It’s the New Year — the perfect time to have your students focus on establishing better habits! Last year, I posted a bunch tips on how to achieve that with your students, starting with the 5 Secrets to Replacing Bad … Read More
This was my second year exhibiting at the Midwest Clinic, and the second year that I sponsored my favourite event, their pre-conference workshop for our important and essential, non-string players teaching strings. It’s always a treat to see these teachers … Read More
An interview with Jennifer Stampfl for NSPTO Month 2023! Today’s conversation is with Jennifer Stampfl, a vocal major in her first year of teaching middle school orchestra in Pomona, California. Jennifer, what did you study in college and what was … Read More
An interview with Andrew Brown for NSPTO Month 2023! Today, we will be talking with Andrew Brown, a band teacher from Markham, Ontario in Canada, who recently started an orchestra program at his junior high and high school. What was … Read More
Non-String Player Teaching Orchestra Appreciation Month! I would like to do something special today. I would like to declare April 2023 as the very first SST Non-String Players Teaching Orchestra Appreciation Month! Let’s celebrate our BTTOs (Band Teachers Teaching Orchestra), … Read More
Here’s one last, thought-provoking post to end this series on helping students correct their technique problems. It can be frustrating to keep telling the same students to fix the same bad habits over and over again. It can be frustrating … Read More
… Here’s the next post for the new year on the theme of getting our students to correct incorrect technique, an important aspect of your job as a string teacher, and an essential part of my teacher training. In the … Read More
… Here’s another post on the theme of correcting technique, something I’m sure most of us regularly struggle with in the classroom. Correcting technique is such a big part of our jobs as string teachers, and that’s why it’s also … Read More
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