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Adolescence is not a disease; coping with the challenges and taking pleasure in teaching "average" teenage piano students.

American Music Teacher

| June 01, 2002 | Yang, Yu-Jane | COPYRIGHT 2002 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

"Teenage students are such an amazing package. They can be so brilliant, so intelligent, so profound, and so insightful, yet at the same time so foolish, so silly, so ridiculous, so crazy, and so immature that we often wonder, `Is this the same person?'"--Carolee Eriksson, a piano teacher of exclusively teenage students

Suddenly, our sweet, happy, respectful, perfect little piano student who was always well prepared for piano lessons becomes a temperamental, discourteous, lazy and unpredictable monster who objects to everything we say and shows no motivation for piano study. Failing to recognize the nature of adolescence and to adapt our teaching to suit the ...

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