Teach Suzuki Podcast - by Paula E. Bird
Weekly podcast episodes accompany your Suzuki music journey, whether you are a parent, a teacher, or a Suzuki music student. Subscribe to the podcast to hear and learn more about being an effective parent or teacher using the Suzuki Method.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
193 TSP S-L-O-W-L-Y
One of the biggest struggles I have in my teaching studio is how to engage students to embrace, adopt, and enjoy the process of practicing slowly. Today’s episode demonstrates and discusses my proces…
00:24:12 |
Sun 15 Dec 2019
192 TSP Practice Challenges
This episode discusses an idea for developing practice challenges for ourselves. In this episode, I discuss how I used the idea of a practice challenge to work through a rehabilitation of a left-hand…
00:20:24 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
191 TSP Holiday Musings, What’s Next?
Today’s episode discusses an important part of our year and how we think about our future. During this holiday season, we can slow our pace to allow us to create mental space to clarify our prioritie…
00:13:44 |
Sun 01 Dec 2019
190 TSP Important Words
Here are some very important words. We are important. Because we are important, how we act, what we do, and what we say matters. Today’s episode reminds us of why it is important to remember this at …
00:21:26 |
Sun 24 Nov 2019
189 TSP Pebble in My Shoe | Teacher Triage
Today’s episode looks at the subject of “teacher triage” and how a teacher might wade through student issues during a lesson. The medical community uses the word “triage” to assess the order of treat…
00:28:00 |
Sun 17 Nov 2019
188 TSP Lessons From Marathon Training
What does marathon training have to do with learning how to play a musical instrument? Teachers can gather many ideas that are similar to the lessons learned from training and running a marathon. Oth…
00:22:58 |
Sun 10 Nov 2019
187 TSP Developing Character Principles
How does one live life to the fullest? How does one stay grounded while surrounded by life’s distractions? Today’s episode talks about one useful tool and an exercise that helps us to foster and refl…
00:19:42 |
Sun 03 Nov 2019
186 TSP Pay Attention to Me! | Self-Management
Teachers and parents spend a great deal of time and effort to get students and children to concentrate and focus. A child may look as if he or she is paying attention to us, but we may find out later…
00:31:28 |
Sun 27 Oct 2019
185 TSP Five Habits for Music Teachers (and Parents too)
Music teachers and parents of students who study music and develop the skills to play musical instruments need to focus on some crucial habits in order to succeed. Here are my five suggested habits f…
00:21:29 |
Sun 20 Oct 2019
184 TSP Define Your Mission Statement
When you go on a trip, before you pull the car out of your driveway, you need to know where you are going. Today’s episode talks about the importance of defining your mission statement to design your…
00:22:44 |
Sun 13 Oct 2019
183 TSP Make My Job Easier | Dear Parent
This episode is an open letter to parents or students who study a music instrument and sets out the basic steps for parents to ensure their children succeed. Other Resources Atomic Habits by James Cl…
00:20:26 |
Sun 06 Oct 2019
182 TSP Setbacks | Managing Your Expectations
How do we recognize a setback in our practice routines or our learning progression? How can we address these setbacks? What are the dangers of unrealistic, uninformed, or nonexistent expectations? To…
00:33:05 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
181 TSP The Reluctant Student
What can we do if a student refuses to participate in lessons? How do we handle the reluctant student — the student who does not seem to be engaged with lessons or learning? How to Encourage the Teac…
00:25:57 |
Sun 22 Sep 2019
180 TSP Good Citizenship
Dr. Suzuki told us that teaching music was not his main purpose. He wanted to make good citizens. He said, “If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop …
00:27:00 |
Sun 15 Sep 2019
179 TSP The Power of Checklists
We do a lot of different things in a day. What if there were a way to speed up our daily, weekly, and monthly tasks so that we could squeeze a few minutes free, or better yet, make our tasks easier t…
00:28:21 |
Sun 08 Sep 2019
178 TSP Draw Them In: Build Concentration and Focus
I live on a ranch with chickens, dogs, alpacas, and several donkeys, along with the occasional horse. My rural ranch life has provided me with many colorful examples of activities and techniques abou…
00:25:14 |
Sun 01 Sep 2019
177 TSP Don’t Make Life Easy!
Parents naturally want to shield their children from frustration, struggle, and harm. The greatest gift parents can give their children is the value of work. Nature gives us examples of work to hatch…
00:23:14 |
Sun 25 Aug 2019
176 TSP Starting a New Student and Parent | Resources for New Parents/Teachers
Starting a new relationship between a teacher, student, and parent is an important step, and there are many things to be sure and put into place for the relationship to succeed in the future. Today’s…
00:24:44 |
Sun 18 Aug 2019
175 TSP How Do You Get Things Done?
How do you get things done when you do not want to do anything? How do you deal with clutter — physical, mental, and emotional? How do you handle the tendency to procrastinate? This episode looks at …
00:27:48 |
Sun 11 Aug 2019
174 TSP Change Your Perspective
Have you considered your perspective and how you think about things? Do you have a process that you can follow to find out what your perspective is? Today’s episode offers a six-step process that ask…
00:17:50 |
Sun 04 Aug 2019
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