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Author Focus: Paul Harris - Improve your Teaching

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Ellena Spirrett
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In part ten of our Author Focus series, Paul discusses his Improve your Teaching series, the importance of being a good role model for your students, and how teachers and students can work together in a positive way.

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An energising and inspirational handbook for all instrumental and singing teachers, packed full of comprehensive advice and practical strategies. Discover a whole range of creative and accessible solutions to the challenges faced in music education.

Book

A resource for all teachers and leaders involved in Wider Opportunities and group music-making. Written by two of the UK's leading music educationalists: Paul Harris and Leonora Davies MBE.

Sheet Music & Audio

Paul Harris’s ground-breaking and inspirational approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or ‘conditions’ that can stand in the way of effective teaching,to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience.

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The Virtuoso Teacher

Faber Music

By considering The Virtuoso Teacher and how a teacher might attain virtuoso status, renowned educator and writer Paul Harris delves into the core issues of being a teacher and the teaching process.

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Simultaneous Learning

Faber Music

Simultaneous Learning is a positive, imaginative approach to teaching that embraces the understanding that all elements of music are connected.

Book

The Practice Process

Faber Music

The Practice Process is an inspiring and empowering look at the crucial topic of practice. Paul Harris explores the key role the teacher plays in developing a psychological and holistic approach for pupils. Packed with clear advice, innovative ideas and principles such as the Integration-Representation-Connection cycle and the Simultaneous Practice Map, this book is firmly rooted in Paul Harris’s highly successful Simultaneous Learning approach.

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Teaching Beginners

Faber Music

A companion to the best-selling Improve Your Teaching, this bookis guaranteed to challenge, affirm and energise your teaching!

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How to sight-read

Faber Music

Written to help students, parents and teachers alike, How to sight-read challenges existing perspectives on sight-reading and presents an innovative new approach to teaching and learning this vital musical skill.

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