Practice

Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 1 First Week of Learning We’ll discuss the most important learning skill for beginners: how to practice You’ll hear about sea slugs and their learning habits We’ll talk about mistakes. Is there such a thing as an “honest mistake”? You’ll understand the magic of “chunking”

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 1 First Week of Learning

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Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits. You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 2 Sports Experts Teach You How to Improve Piano Practice You’ll learn about the importance of “desirable difficulty” We’ll see why embracing mistakes is an important step to growth You’ll discover how to balance praise and with correction and limit talk You’ll encounter the “sandwich” teaching model We’ll investigate “automaticity”: how to make it work for your students and when to change it up

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 2 Sports Experts Teach You How to Improve

Scott McBride Smith

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Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits. You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 3 Practice Challenges and Solutions We’ll ask: is traditional teacher-centered pedagogy always the right choice? We’ll explore what students tell us about why they don’t practice You’ll learn how to improve student willpower We’ll discover how the “illusion of explanatory depth” affects practice You’ll realize the importance of student-completed tasks We’ll discuss how to move from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 3 Practice Challenges and Solutions

Scott McBride Smith

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Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits. You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 4 Your Brain on Practicing You’ll investigate the specifics of brain learning You’ll understand how to supercharge your students’ learning and reinforce the correct neural pathways You’ll discover the three categories of practice We’ll explore how to counteract the “illusion of mastery” You’ll learn practical problem-solving techniques

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 4 Your Brain on Practicing

Scott McBride Smith

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Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits. You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 5 Pavlovian Perfection and Bernsteinian Practice We’ll learn how to utilize conditioned stimuli and responses in teaching You’ll discover how to encourage differentiation and delay habituation You’ll acquire knowledge about building automaticity and making it robust in changing environments We’ll discuss “repetition without repetition”

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 5 Pavlovian Perfection and Bernsteinian Practice

Scott McBride Smith

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Increase Student Success with Research-Based Practical Tips Improve Your Students’ Practice and Technic-Building is a 6-session series of short, information-packed presentations focused on building essential skills for robust learning, productive practice, and confident performance. Each session will highlight research-based practice strategies. But we won’t stop there. We’ll work together on a range of different exercises and approaches proven to improve student practice habits. You’ll experience a variety of practice methods that aren’t limited to technic-building but also shape expressive interpretation. We'll discuss their application to real-life student performance. You’ll understand how to assimilate them into daily practice. Session 6 Problem Solving and Technic Building Famous Musicians We’ll uncover how famous teachers and performers over the last 200 years use “practice devices” to build technic: Chopin’s deep interest in effective fingering Liszt’s scale practice secrets Slow practice pros and cons: the experts opine Rudolph Ganz’s Mirror Exercises Vladimir Horowitz’s Opposite Practice Practicing in rhythms, its many variations, and Adele Marcus’s preference for a different approach Erna Gulabyan’s doubled pairs practice Scott McBride Smith’s balance and voicing exercises Frank Merrick and Delayed Continuity practice

Improve Your Students’ Practice and Performance Session 6 Problem Solving and Technic Building Famous Musicians

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