Description
Instructor: Katherine Fisher
Format: 9 prerecorded videos. Teachers will be granted access to the course page with video links for six months after the time of purchase.
Suggested materials: Piano Safari Friends Book or Piano Safari Friends Teacher Resources
Included as a perk of registration: 30% one-time discount code for Piano Safari materials
Sample Video
Course Syllabus
This course will provide a comprehensive journey through the eight units of Piano Safari Friends.
Video 1: Introduction
- Materials related to Piano Safari Friends
- Types of pieces and activities
- Teaching students ages 4 – 6
- The importance of environment and repetition
- Practice expectations
Video 2: Unit 1
- General principles
- Objectives for Unit 1
- Opening lesson activities
- Improvisation
- Animal Rhythm Patterns
- Technique: posture
- Keyboard orientation: black key groups
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 1
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 3: Unit 2
- Recap of Unit 1
- Objectives for Unit 2
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter C
- Technique: hand position and Lion Paw
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 2
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 4: Unit 3
- Recap of Unit 2
- Objectives for Unit 3
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter D
- Technique: Tall Giraffe
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 3
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 5: Unit 4
- Recap of Unit 3
- Objectives for Unit 4
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter E
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 4
- Playing different parts in an ensemble
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 6: Unit 5
- Recap of Unit 4
- Objectives for Unit 5
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter F
- Technique: Zechariah Zebra
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 5
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 7: Unit 6
- Recap of Unit 5
- Objectives for Unit 6
- Ear training ideas
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter G
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 6
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 8: Unit 7
- Recap of Unit 6
- Objectives for Unit 7
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter A
- Technique: Kangaroo
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 6
- Sample Lesson Plans
Video 9: Unit 8
- Recap of Unit 7
- Objectives for Unit 8
- Keyboard orientation: the Letter B
- Syllabic counting system
- Teaching steps for pieces in Unit 8
- Sample Lesson Plans
- Recap of course material
