Title: Helpful. A must read for starting teachers.
Review: Baker-Jordan covers a plethora of topics that are all important to teaching, ranging from the business aspects to the practical teaching aspects. Most useful is her information on being a "planning" teacher and examples she provides using major piano curricula. The book also contains many useful forms and worksheets -- most in .doc format on the accompanying CDROM.Although she encourages readers to seek beyond the text about learning styles, I am a bit concerned that she hasn't employed nor discussed more learning styles that cover some other issues regarding how students best learn. Also the chapter on technical tips was lacking, covering only tips for early students and also giving vague details about how to these techniques work and function. The section would be very helpful if it were boosted and given more attention. These shortcomings are minor, however, and do not detract from the usefulness of the text.
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