Uncommon Sense Pedagogy

Tips and insights from a veteran piano and Alexander Technique Teacher. After suffering from tendinitis for 10 years, Kay started exploring ways to teach for more physical freedom. She now adds sensory training and continues to research how brain studies direct better ways to teach and learn with simple, enjoyable applications.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Resolutions

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I have a hunch - and I'm big on hunches - that the media must get pretty weary of the news cycles that happen at the end of the calendar...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

No Method

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Theodore Leschetitsky, famed teacher of great Romantic pianists, reportedly had a sign above his studio door that read "no method"...

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Genesis

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Waking up early on a Saturday morning was never my favorite sport, and it still isn't. Even greater was the agony of the feet walking to...

Sunday, September 13, 2009

What box?

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The person who first used "thinking outside the box" should be thrown under the bus, right after the person who first used "t...

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Kay S. Hooper: People, music and movement are the three most important elements in my life. I am fortunate to work with all of them at the same time. After suffering from tendinitis due to faulty movement patterns at the piano, I began exploring the many elements that help or hinder musicians in practice and performance. My blog is dedicated to these discoveries, which continue day by day. Susquehanna University, B.M., Illinois State University, M.M, The Alexander Foundation, ATI certificate, Licensed Andover Educator Body Mapping Teacher™.

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