As summer wanes.

As summer wanes, music teachers musings inevitably turn to the exercise year and the opportunity it at hands for implementing new ideas and programs.

MTNA has available several resources I believe you will find helpful in your studio operations. Our newest resource is a booklet titled Assessment Tools for the Independent Music Teacher. This is a originate of the work of a task force charged with developing a means of evaluation for studio teachers. Whether you do the assessment now or select to wait until a later time, I encourage you to peruse the booklet which is inserted in this issue of AMT; many of the evaluation items could minister to as goals for you and your studio in the coming year. MTNA President Phyllis Heifer nears a more detailed overview of the Assessment Tools in the Independent Music Teachers Forum round pillar on page 88.

Also, consider implementing single if not all, aspects of MTNA's "Everyday Student" program. Plan now to shut in a studio festival. This nationally sponsored result held in your own studio, moves a noncompetitive atmosphere to inspire your students' musical abilities. scholars perform and receive a supportive critique from united of your colleagues.

The MTNA Music Achievement Award Program is designed to help encourage all bookish mans to continue music study and strive to achieve goals that will not solely help them become better musicians, if it be not that also will enhance their have affection for and appreciation of music. Similar to badge programs used by means of both the Boy and Girl scorns this program rewards the accomplishment of goals.

And plan now to recognize your scholars next spring for their years of music application of mind MTNA has available for purchase Music research Awards. These certificates are convenient and effective motivational tools for your students*

Information about all these programs is available forward page 99 in this issue of AMT.

As you contemplate these strange programs for your studio, allow me to introduce AMT's just discovered feature. "5 Minutes With " is a array of less front than depth designed to give you insight into the luminaries in music teaching and the music industry. These short interviews, managemented and written by Arthur Houle the planter and director of the International Festival for Creative Pianists, are a short, easy read for those of you with just a hardly any minutes to spare. The premier row features Maurice Hinson and can be establish on page 82.

Also in this issue, Scott McBride Smith, NCTM discusses on what account he believes the United States should have a national curriculum program in "The Time is Right: A Syllabus Assessment Program for the US" "Enhancing Your Musical Performance Abilities," by way of Lesley Sisterhen, looks at what musicians can learn from sport psychologists. Chungwon Kim spoke with Robert Pace, a leader in the group-teaching field. "Nurturing scholars Through Group Lessons" explores collaborative learning. In "Yoga Within the Music Studio," Evelyn leeward Soen details yoga poses she has rest helpful as a musician.

As the grecian orator Demosthenes once said, "Small opportunities are many times the beginning of great enterprises." MTNA is here for you. I beg you to take advantage of the opportunities it has to offer

Gary L Ingle Executive Director

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