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Group Instrumental Teaching & Mixed Abilities

As we all know, group teaching is a controversial topic. One of the most frequent objections to it (in my experience) is that since no two students will progress at the same rate, or in the same way, the activity is doomed to failure because the less able students will hold the faster learners back and…

Jun 15, 2013 in Instrumental Music, Music Education.
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  • Group Instrumental Teaching I – Why Not?
  • Group Instrumental Teaching III – Keeping Everyone Involved
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  • Klee Connections for Piano
  • Let’s Make Music (forget reading it for now)!
  • More on Effective Group teaching…
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