Author: rosemariepenner

Learning songs • Student Progress • Uncategorized

The Practice Tool You AND Your Students Want

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How many times have you had a student tell you, “I wasn’t sure what to do.”?  With further questioning, it wasn’t so much that the student didn’t know WHAT to practice.  They didn’t remember HOW something was supposed to sound and didn’t have the confidence in their skills to figure it out on their own.
For a song, it’s not a problem to hop over to YouTube and find a version of the song.  But, what if that isn’t quite the right solution?
Read more for my review of the app that my students and I keep coming back to!

Music Lab • Resource Review • Travel Teacher • Uncategorized

What iOS 11 Means For Music Educators

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The big music education news on social media these days is all about the apps that no longer work with iOS 11.  I’m one of the lucky ones with only about 30 apps that no longer work with the new update.  Some teachers are finding that there are even more apps that will no longer work! What is a teacher to do?

Staying Healthy • Travel Teacher • Uncategorized

Top 12 Tips To Stay Healthy This Year: Part 2

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Well, it is week 3 of school & one of my kids has a cold.  We are having more soup as a family & everyone is upping the ante in order to keep the cold from spreading.  Except my son who has the cold & has taken to absentmindedly leaving Kleenex lying around on all the surfaces.  Sigh.  This is Part 2 of my top 12 tips to stay healthy during the academic year.

Productivity • Reflections • The admin side of teaching • Uncategorized

What I Learnt From An IKEA Catalogue

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The new IKEA catalogue came several weeks ago. While we don’t NEED new furniture right now, I like looking at how they set up the rooms for ideas of what we can do with our home. But, this time it was different.
What if we could drastically change the reading behaviour of our clients with a shift in perspective for our studio-client communications?