Wednesday, Oct. 11 Without the Instrument, Without the Music: Teaching Beginners Through Music Games

9:45am Social Time Municipal Arts Ctr, 1119 5th St SW

10:00am Program Melinda Goodwin

Welcome to Melinda’s bag of tricks. There are so many ways to teach beginners to play an instrument without one. Teaching sight-reading, rhythm and musicality through games and fun activities is a great way to add variety to

your teaching day. Pre-teaching for new pieces before the student even opens

the book makes the lesson flow smoothly. Join Melinda to learn the variety of tips she has invented and picked up from other teachers over the years. Manipulatives to make yourself and favorite teaching aids will be shown along with resources of where and how to make and buy them for your own students.

Before moving to Virginia, Melinda had her own piano studio in Plano, TX. As an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University for two years in the Piano Pedagogy department, she instructed master’s level pianists to teach private and class piano lessons in the preparatory academy, and she also taught class piano to undergraduate students. Melinda has a Master of Music from Southern Methodist University in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, and a Bachelors of Music from the University of Oklahoma in Piano Pedagogy and Performance.