Different Development Levels
Found in: Curriculum, Development Levels
Evan H., Kansas
Any advice for grouping students who are in different Development levels? Can this be done, and if so, what does a typical lesson look like? Or, how do I teach the lesson in such a way that gives the most value to the students even though they would be in very different levels of the Development program?
Robin Keehn, Washington
Hi Evan, I’ve never taught students in different development levels but I suppose I’d do it like I do when a group of students have different reading projects. Personally, I’d consider having a SHARED piece of music that everyone works on and then consider the Development Pieces personal projects.
Basically, you facilitate the reverse engineering of the primary piece of your choice (and you can simply process it away from the piano, process at the piano, or process with the intention to commit to memory) and everyone participates. Then…you take those pieces that students are learning and have everyone participate in the facilitation of the learning (not that everyone is working on the pieces but that they are helping each other). Let me know if you need clarification.
Evan H., Kansas
Robin Thanks a lot! Sorry for the delay. I had never thought of being able to treat the Development pieces as individual projects. This could open up some possibilities.
Original discussion started August 3, 2022