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The music teacher as coach ...: empowering students to realize their inner potential.

American Music Teacher

| August 01, 2007 | Cencer, Bethany | COPYRIGHT 2007 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

If you had to summarize in one minute exactly what it is that you teach, what would you say? A teacher's main task is to communicate true information in an effective manner. Yet while they are instructing within their field of expertise, teachers are simultaneously motivating, advising and supporting their students. The American historian Henry Adams wrote, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." It is an uplifting statement for any instructor to contemplate. The most influential teachers in my life were the ones who allowed an atmosphere of creative freedom to prevail. Through quality instruction I was developing the ability to make my ...

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