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Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom: A Guide for Group
Instruction assists music education students, in-service teachers,
and performers to realize their goals of becoming effective string
educators. It introduces readers to the school orchestra
environment, presents the foundational concepts needed to teach
strings, and provides opportunities for the reader to apply this
information. The author describes how becoming an effective string
teacher requires three things of equal importance: content
knowledge, performance skills, and opportunities to apply the
content knowledge and performance skills in a teaching situation.
In two parts, the text addresses the unique context that is
teaching strings, a practice with its own objectives and related
teaching strategies. Part I (Foundations of Teaching and Learning
String Instruments) first presents an overview of the string
teaching environment, encouraging the reader to consider how
context impacts teaching, followed by practical discussions of
instrument sizing and position, chapters on the development of each
hand, and instruction for best practices concerning tone
production, articulation, and bowing guidelines. Part II
(Understanding Fingerings) provides clear guidance for
understanding basic finger patterns, positions, and the creation of
logical fingerings. String fingerings are abstract and thus
difficult to negotiate without years of playing experience-these
chapters (and their corresponding interactive online tutorials)
distill the content knowledge required to understand string
fingerings in a way that non-string players can understand and use.
Teaching Strings in Today's Classroom contains pedagogical
information, performance activities, and an online virtual teaching
environment with twelve interactive tutorials, three for each of
the four string instruments. ACCOMPANYING VIDEOS CAN BE ACCESSED
VIA THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: www.teachingstrings.online
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