Musical and instrumental pedagogy is a very strange science. Only one who has passed the system of music education can answer the question: "What is it?".
Education in the musical university is based on two pillars. On the one hand, a specialist teacher receives an "inoculation" of knowledge consisting of methods, techniques and various ways of working with students. This knowledge gives the teacher the right to work with children and teach. On the other hand, the future teacher gains the experience of performing.
A musician develops his experience over the years of musical and performing activities aimed at studying polyphony, plays and etudes, of large form. Having played a bunch of "academics" and exams, the teacher-musician gets his cherished diploma, in which one more "apprentice" is added - "ARTIST"!
Dear colleagues, have you ever wondered how many years you spent on your education?
7 years - at a music school, 4 years - at a music school and another 5 years at the university. Total - 16! That's the figure! I wonder if any other specialist can boast of such an education?
What is the result? Do you get satisfaction from your work and your work?
Let's not talk about the financial side of this issue! Choosing this profession, you knew what was going on! The question is, do you get joy from the process of pedagogy, joy from the children's eyes faithfully looking at you, from the delight of the first children's performing successes !?
Unfortunately, not all teachers experience such joy. For many teachers, the learning process has become hard labor. Today so often you can hear:
- "Children aren't the ones! They don't want to do anything!"
- "Pupil-mediocre, does not understand anything!"
- "No matter how you teach him, he doesn’t do anything!"
- “Exams are again, but we are not prepared for anything ... How I am sick of it!”
- "Once again, the selection of the repertoire! What would he give to play?"
- "Well! Again, I failed the exam! Ignorant!"
Well, how!? Topical, isn't it? Unfortunately, the artisan approach in our profession is not fiction!
Why it happens?
Pedagogy is LABOR! WORK supremely! Teaching is not only telling what you know. To teach - it means to teach and interpret knowledge so that the student can use them independently. Knowledge should be part of the student experience!
Musical and instrumental pedagogy is ART! ART, whose secret lies not in how HOW YOU PLAY, but how HOW YOU LEARN!
Often a young teacher with a "red diploma" of the conservatory is completely unprepared for pedagogical work. And all because he knows how to play, but can not teach! Ambitions are overwhelmed by the teacher, in his hearts he shouts at the kid: “How it does not work, but I succeed!”. And he is right in his own way! For 16 years he taught Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, taught and selflessly performed! And in training, it is important to explain how he does it. Not everyone can pass on what is “in the arms” - “in the arms” of the other. Teaching is talent!
It also happens that the teacher with experience is tired, "exhausted"! You glance casually into his class, and there the would-be student sits and teaches a difficult passage, while the teacher looks thoughtfully out the window!
There are things and terrible! This is when a teacher views students as a “pipeline”: the same programs from year to year, the same mistakes, the same complaints!
What to do?
To teach a child to perform is to teach a child to understand music. Through imagination and creativity, you can reach out to any "very mediocre" student.
Revise your vision of the world of music education! Why learn if you can work together !?
A student is a canvas, and what colors he plays will depend on you! The student plays as he is taught, as they demand from him, as he is allowed to perform!
Music is one of many types of world art, species that complement each other. Create musical fairy tales, write poetry to music, draw pictures, compose and improvise, attend concerts together, organize interesting forms of academic concerts.
The most difficult passage becomes easy if imagination and ingenuity are used when learning it, and most importantly, interest! If it will be interesting to you - it will be interesting to the student too! Talk with the student, tell about yourself, your experience. Become a student friend, senior mentor! Overcome difficulties together!
Your own desire to create, fantasize, experiment will be contagious for your students!
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