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

Scott McBride Smith

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

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