Reviews of teaching materials

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    My 2013 Teaching Aid Discovery My 2013 Teaching Aid Discovery

    My 2013 Teaching Aid Discovery

My 2013 Teaching Aid Discovery

It seems like every year I discover some kind of amazing new teaching tool. Last year it was the Eggspert. The year before that it was the erasable highlighters that really work!

As you know, I am an office-supply junkie and love to browse to see what’s new. Since Frixion made such a wonderful teaching tool in […]

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    Join the Conversation on Thursday! Join the Conversation on Thursday!

    Join the Conversation on Thursday!

Join the Conversation on Thursday!

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What I Can’t Teach Without

These days, I know that teachers are feeling the crunch of the difficult financial times.  With all the wonderful piano teaching blogs available, it’s easy to have a million studio ideas, but not know what is most worthy of our time, energy, and money in accomplishing our teaching goals.  So, I’ve decided to examine my own studio and teaching and report on the essential tools […]

Smash Hit Games with the Eggspert

About a month ago, I purchased the Eggspert Quizzing System and began using it in my studio. Since then, I have not stopped raving about how my students and I love it!  Many of you have also purchased the inexpensive system and wanted more details on how I use it in my studio, so I thought I’d post about it.

Review of Tangy Tango

Don’t forget that I’m giving away 2 copies of “Tangy Tango” on Wednesday (AND there is an amazing product post and giveaway starting on Wednesday that you won’t want to miss!).  See this post for information on all the ways that you can enter.

Susan Paradis has posted […]

Review and Giveaway of American Portraits

Natalie from Music Matters Blog has written a review, or rather played a review of my American Portraits books.  Visit her blog if you’d like to hear a few clips of her performance of these pieces.  In addition, Hal Leonard is giving away a free copy of the book, so enter a comment on her blog post for a chance […]

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American Portraits Review

DeeAnn Brown is an adjuct teacher of piano at Wichita State University.  I have had the privilege of observing her teaching years ago when I was a pedagogy student at WSU.  She amazed me then with her abilities to coax the most musical, skilled sound out […]

Erasable Highlighter Comparison: Pilot vs. Office Max

In this previous post, I wrote about a new item I was going to be using in the fall: erasable highlighters.  I was so excited after learning about these that I ran out to purchase them from Office Max.  I bought the Office Max brand which had 5 colors for about $4.99.  When I came home however, I was a little disappointed because it […]

Office Supply Obsession: A Liquid Pencil

Over on Facebook ComposeCreate, I’ve been talking about my obsession with office supplies.  It turns out that many of you share my love of browsing at the local office supply store for fun!

Well, I was super excited and surprised to learn of a new product: the Sharpie Liquid Pencil!  Ever since it was drilled into me to complete my theory assignments in […]

Preparing for Fall: New Product Discoveries

Since I posed the question about teacher’s favorite teaching aids on the ComposeCreate Facebook page, I’ve gotten a lot of suggestions from other teachers.  So, I thought I’d mention the ones that piqued my interest the most:

Erasable Highlighters:

And I thought Highlighter Tape was the best thing ever!  Since 2010, I’ve revised which brand I use and […]