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It's all your business: having it all without doing it all.(Professional Resources)

American Music Teacher

| April 01, 2008 | Thickstun, Karen | COPYRIGHT 2008 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

I had just finished teaching a series of pedagogy classes, covering many business aspects of running a studio (including studio policies, marketing, recordkeeping, tax returns), when one of my students, with a deer-in-the-headlights look, asked, "Can I just keep working for you (the Community Arts School) when I graduate? I'll never be able to do all this? I just want to teach."

She had a point. At age 21, the prospect of establishing a home studio can seem daunting. She also, indirectly, reminded me that we tend to divide our profession into two categories--college faculty and independent teachers--and to describe these two categories largely by where the ...

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