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Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers.(Book review)
Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, by Bonnie Blanchard with Cynthia Blanchard Acree. Indiana University Press, (www.iupress.indiana.edu; (800) 842-6796), 2007. 336 pp. $24.95.
Bonnie Blanchard is a very enthusiastic teacher. Her enthusiasm is infectious and attracts a studio full of excited students who love to practice and experience their lesson as the highlight of their week. Private music teachers who want a successful studio like this will find many ideas here. Also, this book will be inspirational for teachers who may be experiencing a little burnout.
A passionate commitment to the enjoyment of teaching and to loving one's students seems to be the idea. Blanchard says that teaching because you want to enrich lives is great, but the real secret to motivating yourself and your students is to sincerely create student (and parent) relationships that are loving, respectful and inquisitive.
Part 1, "Enriching Lives," details her philosophy of motivating students. The first chapter provides a valuable overview, while the second chapter is inspirational in its description of the ideal teacher-student relationship. I found great value throughout this section, for example, I was inspired to try her "two assignment book" plan from Chapter 9. In the first weekly assignment book I loved the suggestion of sometimes devoting an entire ...
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