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Essential skills for promoting a lifelong love of music and music kaking: Part 1 of 4.

American Music Teacher

| February 01, 2005 | Payne, Dorothy | COPYRIGHT 2005 Music Teachers National Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

INTRODUCTION

Stereotypes die hard, sometimes. There still are people in the U.S. who think all music teachers are kindly ladies with negligible training and no professionalism, handing out candy for good performances and slaps on the wrist for bad.

Kindly? Mostly. Minimal professionalism? Never! Today's MTNA members are educated, experienced and expert. This is reflected in results from studies that show music teachers are viewed by most U.S. citizens as respected professionals. In the latest Gallup poll, American Attitudes Toward Music (March 2003, conducted for the National Association of Music Merchants), an overwhelming majority of Americans ...

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