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Thinking as You Play: Teaching Piano in Individual and Group Lessons.(Book review)
* Thinking As You Play: Teaching Piano in Individual and Group Lessons, by Sylvia Coats. Indiana University Press (601 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404), 2006. 163 pp. $24.95.
Thinking As You Play: Teaching Piano in Individual and Group Lessons is intended for piano teachers and college piano pedagogy students. It is a wonderful book for the experienced teacher who wants to take his or her teaching to the next level. Graduate pedagogy students or undergraduates who have completed at least one semester of pedagogy would also benefit greatly from this book. Because Sylvia Coats's intention is to focus on how to teach, rather than what to teach, familiarity with modern piano methods and materials before reading this book would provide needed context.
The book includes the following sections: a comprehensive introduction, which presents Coats's philosophy and provides an overview of the succeeding chapters; chapters on discovery learning, musical concepts and principles, designing a curriculum, communication and learning styles; and four chapters dealing with group teaching.
Coats's purpose is to assist teachers with the development of piano students who are independent and creative learners. Coats states, "piano students need to learn how to learn so that they can make intelligent decisions about music they are playing. The development of the critical thinking skills of conceptualizing, analyzing, evaluating and problem solving should be a major part of instruction." Her idea is that teachers should teach from a curriculum they have developed, rather than simply turning the pages of a ...
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