What are Advantages to Teach One Student by Two Teachers?
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17% of the participants of 2015 PTNA Piano Competition has been taught by 2 teachers. So far, piano lesson has been mainly conducted on a one-to-one basis. However, there are several advantages to teach one student by two teachers; one senior teacher and one younger teacher.
For instance, younger teachers can be immediate ideal models for students, whereas senior teachers who have rich experiences can bring a feeling of trust to students' parents. Secondly, if there are two teachers in a studio, much more time and opportunities could be offered to students. It would also encourage younger teachers to develop their teaching knowledges and skills, since most of them begin their careers without sufficient experiences after graduation. Lastly, collaboration between two teachers who have different characteristics and ideas could create a better balance in lessons.
Here are testimonies by young teachers.
Suzuko Sakakibara, a pianist who had lots of experiences in competitions, tries to give helpful advices to her students, such as how to keep motivation, how to prepare for the stages, etc. On the other hand, her senior collaborator knows her (their) students' characteristics much better than her, thus it gives her another perspectives to understand them. This collaboration also works well especially when they read the feedback comments from jury members after competitions, in order to have objective views to toward students' performances and their teaching methods.
Sumiyo Kakisaka serves as a lecturer in two different piano studios. She studied piano performance at the Tokyo College of Music, and had a number of awards at piano competitions. After graduation, she started to work as a piano teacher at a musical instruments store in Fukuoka, and later, she was introduced to those piano teachers by a local representative of PTNA Fukuoka branch. The collaborations has been successful so far, and Kakisaka received PTNA Teachers' Award last year, and serves as STEP adviser from this year.
Yuna Kobayashi, studied in Japan and Italy and had a lot of awards in domestic and international competitions, works together with her mother, who shares similar musical senses and different strong points. Yuna knows recent trend of piano performance, whereas her mother has a lot of teaching experiences and also supplies mental care to students.
Miku Omine, a pianist graduated from Chopin Music Academy and Berlin University of the Arts, knows that there are strong points and weak points in each teacher, and therefore, collaboration is meaningful. One of the important things is to recognize the principle that assistant teachers should support principal teachers. If assistant teacher notices the musical interpretation is different from that of principal teachers, they should imagine the reason and lead students to reach better performances based on that. Inversely, if students cannot perform in a natural way, assistant teachers could propose different interpretations and make them think it over again with principal teachers. Omine thinks it is essential to propose broader possibility of musical ideas and interpretations.
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