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A comprehensive curriculum based on

  • Readiness
  • Potential
  • Sequenced Development
  • Preserving Options

Readiness

The child’s complex, multifaceted development will have inevitable elements of predictability but the time frame will be different for each individual. This understanding is the major advantage offered by the experienced teacher.

Potential

The Bell Curve that Edwin Gordon, Ph.D., author of the Iowa tests of Musical Aptitude, presents translates to 85 to 90 per cent of us achieving what I would call a professional level of performance. 

Sequenced Development

Gordon’s research also offers the essential advantages of sequenced tonal and rhythmic goals – goals that confirm potential while expanding achievement. Here, again, it is the teacher’s experience that supports and sustains musical progress. I believe that each individual can experience the essentials of musical understanding requisite for secure as well as creative performance.

Preserving Options

While we may seek to understand the child’s potential, the life-path of any individual will always be unpredictable. While engagement is essential to learning, idiosyncratic teaching based on a primary goal of entertainment, will not nurture potential. Childhood is brief. The precious time, needed for secure, sequenced musical development, needs to be spent with care if our goal is the satisfaction that only music can offer.     

Helen Martin www.theWholeString.com  

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