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Alex Feather Akimov: Now Teaching At Guitar Master Class
2012-01-29 01:47:00 Alex Feather Akimov teaches guitar on Guitar Master Class Alex is a session musician - guitarist, composer and producer from Los Angeles, USA with a rich experience both from studios and touring. Born in 1986, he was just an 11 year boy when he started playing his first chords on his mother's old guitar, inspired by his first idols - The Beatles. Educated from Moscow College of Music and graduated from LAMA (Los Angeles Music Academy) learning jazz and classical guitar, he is now the master of fusion style. He usually gets his ideas from something he would hear as a good beat, here and there, but people who support him like family and fans inspire him the most. Alex is always searching for More and New in all aspects of his music. His favorite guitarist is Greg Howe whom he learned from on LAMA. The two of them recorded together an instrumental song called ?Search?. Among other songs on his albums, he recorded a single track with Frank Gambale called ?Beautiful Lani? which is f...
Tennis: Teaching and learning and a whole lot more
2012-01-20 13:43:00 As I happily rejoined a group of players I knew in a drill tonight, once again, I drew parallels to being a learner and a teacher. (I recently had to adjust to a new pro in my other group, and even though that’s a story for another time, many parts of it apply here.) Tonight... Read more »
Adam Nolly Getgood: will be teaching on BANDHAPPY soon
2012-01-10 21:58:00 Adam Nolly GetgoodThanks for the enquiries from those that have messaged me on BANDHAPPYalready, I'll hopefully have some time to teach in the near future! http://bandhappy.com/profile/no-llyNolly | BANDHAPPYbandhappy.comHi, I'm Adam, though most know me as Nolly. I play guitar and am one of the main songwriters in the progressive metal band Red Seas Fire, as well as being a session/demo guitarist for several companies including Bare Knuckle Pickups. I have been teaching for 8 years, and I'm comfortable teaching all...
How to Become an ESL Teacher ? Guide to Teaching English Abroad
2011-12-22 18:45:00 I sat at the front of the classroom with my half-eaten lunch as 28 Japanese 7-year-olds hovered around me peppering me with questions: ”How tall are you? Why are your eyes brown? What’s the best place in America?” Their eyes wide with genuine curiosity and interest, I answered questions in my broken Japanese and signed autographs as they ...How to Become an ESL Teacher – Guide to Teaching English Abroad is a post from the Money Crashers personal finance blog.
By: Money Crashers
Reality v. Fantasy, My Brief (& Final) Attempt at Teaching
2011-12-04 10:42:00 I have a dear nutcase friend who recently suggested that several of us mothers take their daughters after school on a rotating basis and teach them…something. I agreed even though like you readers have been saying I don’t really know … Continue reading →
By: Let the Dog in!
Teaching Cartoon: Tools Prior to Category Errors
2011-11-16 06:17:00 bonus: Lu Gen of the Tang dynasty was styled Jingshan: he was a man of Wu prefecture. In his official career he reached the post of inspector of Shexuan, and also was a member of the supreme court. He first … Continue reading →
Nicola Ancillotti: the principles of teaching
2011-10-03 18:07:00 The principles of teaching Antonio Cordaro Nicola Ancillotti (CCR® Extreme) plays "Lydian Rush" (N. Ancillotti)
Teaching Cartoon: Dishes
2011-10-03 17:03:00 Standing at the sink on the first evening of being the cabin owner’s guest, the owner stood next to me at the sink, observing the fruits of my having offered to do the dishes, and, after a few minutes, told … Continue reading →
Teaching failure at two schools
2011-09-16 18:07:00 Should both high-poverty and fancy private schools try and help kids develop skills like curiosity, zest, grit, and resilience? Â And what happens when they do? Â That’s the focus of this new Paul Tough article in this weekend’s NYÂ Times Magazine (What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?). Â The story uses a fancy New York City... Read more »
How Teaching is Similar to Directing
2011-08-14 19:49:00 The Schoolmaster by Adriaen van Ostade It has been one of my life-long dreams to become a movie director, seconded by a career in writing. In terms of directing I had my first taste when I made a short film alongside a friend of mine and the experience was wonderful and rewarding. At the same time, I got to sense some of the difficulties that may come with this line of work. Anyhow, I ended embarking upon a teaching career. In fact, there are a few similarities between the two professions. The idea came to me when I realized that apart from every teacher having their own style, quirks and trademarks, the same lesson plan can have completely different outcomes, the same way two directors with identical scripts will not produce identical movies. One of the decisions film-makers must make is the pace of their work. Does or should the movie follow a deliberately slow or an action-packed fast pace? Is the film able to consistently keep the interest of the viewer? Pacing is the rhy...
By: Arash's World
The Middle East Teaching America about Peace?
2011-02-24 06:14:00 "Maybe at the end of this painful sorting out time, the Middle East will teach the U.S. what peaceful democracy looks like, and help us to put down our guns and internal violence. Wouldn't that be a switch? The Middle East teaching America about peace. "
Teaching: So You Want To Be A Substitute?
2011-01-20 03:52:00 "Congratulations! We are pleased to invite you to attend a Chicago Public School (CPS) Certified Substitute Teacher Selection Event! The event will focus on identifying high quality, certified instructors to join the Chicago Public Schools Day-to-Day Substitute Teacher Pool. This pool is regularly accessed by principals looking to fill regular teaching positions as well. Due to an overwhelming response, we have decided to host several events over a two day period and ask that you strictly adhere to the time assigned to you."...
Spring is for Teaching Kids to Fish
2011-01-16 06:48:00 Nothing succeeds like success. One of the most important aspects of teaching a child to fish is catching fish. If he or she is unable to catch a fish they quickly lose interest.
Teaching Cartoon: What?s Good For You
2011-01-05 18:42:00 click for large version Fast Freddie’s cat stands in for Nasruddin here. This falls into the class of teaching stories in which the person doesn’t know any better. (Gilbert Shelton of course, from The Further Adventures of Those Fabulous Furry … Continue reading →
I wrote a book about teaching: Learning Curves – available now
2010-12-07 16:42:00 Description: Carolyn Reardon loved being a full-time mom, but after enrolling her children in preschool, she wanted to do more than just wait for them at home every day. Becoming a high school teacher seemed like the perfect career. At first, Carolyn found meaning as an educator, helping students who grew to appreciate her enthusiasm ...
Teaching: Earpieces & Webcams In Class
2010-12-07 00:36:00 Coaching is going high-tech with earpieces & walkie-talkies (Tribune); teacher evaluation is getting webcams (NYT). What do you think about being talked to and taped in class? ...
Teaching Cartoon. Top This
2010-11-30 06:37:00 (source: Zen Forest Sayings of the Master, complied by Soiku Shigematsu)
Teaching: Scripted Curricula Cripple Teachers
2010-11-08 17:45:00 During Miss Mimi's rookie year, her school used a scripted reading program and a games-based math program. In her second year of teaching, it adopted- a balanced literacy approach to reading and writing, began a brand new word study program and implemented a totally new math curriculum, in addition to re-writing their science and social studies lessons. In her third yea-r, they changed word study programs, as the science and social studies scope and sequence went through another overhaul. In her fourth year, the school adopted a third word study program, and instituted a battery of new tests. This constant flux, it is no exaggeration to say, has "crippled teachers." As we move into a new era of austerity, I also wonder how much it cost to sell, plan, implement, and evaluate all of those...
CRITICAL-MINDED
2010-10-19 17:07:00 Teacher and education expert, Zoe Burgess, believes in critical thinking. So much so that she's written about how to successfully integrate it into the classroom. She starts of by defining critical thinking as "the ability to understand and apply the abstract, the ability to infer and to meaningfully investigate." She then goes on to cite specific critical thinking scenarios and methods that gauge how well students may apply this real-world skill. Check out her entire piece right here.
Classrooms: Life In The Reassigned Teaching Pool
2010-10-18 18:27:00 What's it like to be in the reassigned teacher pool (CPS PDF here)-- fascinating, horrifying, challenging, satisfying? Here's one teacher's experience -- I'm sure there are many others just as interesting. "Having never been a sub and never having tuaght any grade higher than fourth, you can imagine my fear. As it turned out I ended up being a push - in. What totally amazed me was the lack of teaching. I sat there during the literacy block watching children do vocabulary sheets, and comprehension quesitons. My afternoon consisted of students doing work that was written on the chalkboard. I saw some students quietly doing the work, others doing nothing but talking, drawing or just sitting. I am hoping that...
Isn't TV Producing 101 teaching about signing consent forms for minors?
2010-10-18 01:55:00 As the Mom of teenagers I read this news article and my eyebrows shot up;A Georgia woman whose 15-year-old daughter appeared on an episode of Tyra Banks' talk show featuring teen sex addicts is suing the TV host for $3 million.In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8 in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon says her daughter appeared on the former model's talk show without McClendon's permission.Banks, Warner Bros. Entertainment and the producers of the show are named as defendants.A spokesman for Warner Bros. Television Group said Sunday that the company has no comment.The lawsuit claims violation of privacy and negligence. It asks for $3 million in damages and seeks to keep the episode from ever being aired again.McClendon says her daughter suffered damages because the 2009 show "was undoubtedly watched by sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles."This story is odd in so many reasons! Now, with 2 kids past the 15-year old mark and one hovering closely (she is 14) I know that teens have...
teaching sensitivity
2010-10-15 14:42:00 My student, B is thirteen and he has finally memorized Albeniz’s Capricho Catalán. We’ve been working on it juxtaposed to Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1. He favors the Satie piece (not memorized yet) for he plays it with a sensitivity that is remarkable. It is such a gentle piece with mild dissonances. He plays it with such intention that the melody floats. He plays it in such a way that shows me that he is especially connected to this piece. But that sensitivity is not consistent – as if he disconnects from himself a tiny bit during particular measures. The faster and cheerful Albeniz piece needs more detailed study. It’s busier and perhaps being on purpose and intentional is more demanding. But how to listen slowly when things are fast? Such is the dilemma with some. Slower piece are easier to be present with while faster pieces demand a great deal of attention. He’s already listening in such a way that most grown ups have not trained...
By: jnetsworld
Two Batesonian Teaching Cartoons
2010-10-13 04:36:00 Okay. I mentioned I had this darn insight many years ago: something like a Batesonian metalogue–which are sprinkled throughout his books–seems to be discoverable in the deep structure of particular Sufi teaching stories. This old insight has evolved and this … Continue reading →
Teaching Kids Digital Photography Basics - a Great Activity for Families
2010-10-11 03:49:00 Being a parent with two children whom I've known closely before and after I bought them their own digital cameras, I think I notice that a child with a camera is a child who thinks about her environment. The camera just happens to be a tool that forces a child to actually look at what she's seeing. Clutching a camera all the time, she can't help but be aware that she needs to do something with it that is noteworthy. A camera is something that makes a child look at the world with fresh eyes, and it gently gets you thinking about expressing something with your pictures. And even more so than the conventional camera, thinking and experimenting becomes really fun when you go digital - the results are instantaneous, and that makes the process really engaging. So as a parent, I feel I just need to gently steer her with a few digital photography basics that make sure poor quality results don't get her to lose interest; and I'll need to make sure she has plenty of activitie...
By: DIGITAL I.T BLOG
The Khan Academy is Teaching the Online World
2010-09-30 16:30:00 Here is a great learning site to help brush up on your algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus skills. You can also find courses for economics, finance, history and science. This growing site is called the Khan Academy. The instructor, Salman Khan, is helping current students and former students gain or regain their footing with these topics. He basically provides a 10 minute block of instruction (due to youtube’s time limit) on a given topic, which is short enough to keep your attention span. His site offers over 1800 different courses.Salman gave up a successful career in finance to share his vast knowledge with the world for FREE. From what I can see, he’s a terrific math teacher.The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.Check out the Khan Academy and its amazing story.And by the way, the Academy was recently selected by Google's project 10^100
By: My SysAd Blog
Teaching the Bald Ibis to migrate
2010-09-28 10:16:00 Apparently taking a cue from Operation Migration’s efforts with Whooping Cranes, there now appears to be an effort to reintroduce the critically endangered Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) to parts of Europe. These birds were driven extinct there in the 1700′s after collectors scaled cliffs to take chicks and eggs. It is now one of ...
By: Migrations
Tosin Abasi: Teaching an old dog new tricks?
2010-08-24 17:59:00 Josh from Fretterverse says: Getting older is a funny thing. ?You just wait and see? must be on an endless subconscious loop in the minds of my parent?s generation. The younger you are, the more you think you know, and the more the older generation can?t wait for you to grow up a little bit and see the expression on your face when you finally ?get it? and realize you don?t know everything. But the burden isn?t just on the young guys. Quite often the older folks don?t give the younger guys enough credit. They just assume they know nothing, are unmotivated, and will never learn. find out what Josh learned
Tom Quayle,Rick Graham: Workshop 2010 - Tom teaching Legato
2010-08-17 20:40:00 Tom Quayle & Rick Graham Workshop 2010 - Tom teaching Legato part 1
Teaching Photo
2010-08-15 08:51:00 As a longtime collector of teaching stories, especially in the form of teaching cartoons, I always have an ear and eye for materials which deliver the teachable moment in super condensed form. I have a few pictures in the collection, … Continue reading →
Teaching the Constitution
2010-07-24 11:15:00 I think I just read the most asinine article ever. The Detroit Free Press has a write up on teaching the Constitution in schools. You might be doing a double-take, but I think I did a 23-take....
A Sathya Sai Saga. Barry Pittard Recollects. Part 1
2010-07-20 00:07:00 For twenty five years, I was deeply devoted to Sathy Sai Baba. He is widely regarded as India's most famous and most politically and religiously powerful guru. At his behest, and as an unpaid service, I taught all three years intake in the Humanities degree course at the Sathya Sai College at Whitefield, via Bangalore, South India (1977-1978). In particular, quite apart from a large workload with the first two years, to have been handed the college Principal's third year English lectures was a considerable challenge for which I shall always be grateful, especially given that this was my first teaching job, except for school experience in my teaching diploma, and my coaching at a college in Australia that helped put me through university, and having also just done post graduate theatre training.
University of Illinois professor found to be teaching Catholic thought, fir
2010-07-14 00:26:00 HowellA University of Illinois at Champaign student was outraged, outraged I say, to discover that an adjunct professor teaching "Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought" was fired for actually teaching Catholic thought (based on natural moral law) on sexuality.He/she (the student was not identified) fired off an e-mail to the head of the university's religion department (copying homosexual advocates) complaining that the teachings were insensitive. Note that the student did not argue the merits or demerits of natural law philosophy versus utilitarianism, the point that the professor, Kenneth Howell, was making.The university was so impressed with the student's (il)logic that it spring into action and, as a certain sports announcer might say, "He gone!"Details of this unbelievable infringement on free...
UIllinois Prof Fired Over Teaching Subject He Was Hired To Teach
2010-07-11 16:17:00 UIllinois Prof Fired Over Teaching Subject He Was Hired To Teach
Andy James, Owen Edwards: working on new DVD and book teaching package
2010-07-03 17:51:00 these will be 5 120+ page full colour glossy books and DVD'S (plus the relevant online options/ebooks etc) with the transcription and music editing team who worked on Guitar Techniques from the early days: New Frontier Guitar Series Books One To Five Book One: Pentatonic Potency Massive Exploration into the creative use of Pentatonics in Advanced Rock/Metal/Shred Guitar with unique new approaches and super advanced techniques. Book Two: Modal Madness Complete in depth examination of the most commonly used major scale modes Ionian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Lydian in rock and metal with revolutionary new approaches and super advanced phrasing. Book Three: Into The Realms Of The Exotica Breaking down the mysteries of some of the more specialist scales in rock and metal, including Harmonic Minor, Phrygian, Phrygian Dominant, Lydian, Neo Classical, Exotic metal scales including: Kumoi Pentatonic, Kokin Joshi (Friedman/Becker style) etc Book Four: Ultimate Extreme Technique...
Sathya Sai Baba?s religious teaching
2010-06-25 12:53:00 Sai teaching that he is God and his pick-and-mix ‘Sai religion’: To accept Sathya Sai Baba as an avatar of God is to adopt the dualistic paradigm (dvaita). He considers this an inferior form of understanding(!), yet he encourages it enormously! From his many claims about himself, his constant directions and the practices carried on ...
Traveling in Ireland - Teaching Children About Sustainable Gardening
2010-06-23 00:24:00 Shawna Coronado Traveling in Ireland - Teaching Children About Sustainable Gardening at the Bloom 2010 event.
Tom Hess: Teaching Chords To Beginning Guitar Students
2010-06-19 09:58:00 Teaching Chords To Beginning Guitar Students By Tom Hess A very common and frustrating problem beginning guitar students face is not being able to change chords quickly, fluently and musically. This may be frustrating for you, the guitar teacher, too, when you are not sure about how to solve the problem. There can be more than one reason why a student may struggle when trying to change chords smoothly. So the first thing to do when dealing with this challenge is to diagnose why the problem exists. You need to determine if your student has one of the following problems:A. A physical coordination problem B. He/she has not been practicing C. A lack of understanding of what needs to be done D. A mental processing problem Most guitar teachers ASSUME the reason is either A. (a physical coordination problem) or B. (little or no practice). Fact is, most of the time this is wrong. The majority of students actually DO attempt to practice. And TRUE physical coordination problems ar...
AM News: Did Kirk Lie About Teaching Record?
2010-06-18 15:20:00 Kirk's Teaching Career Is Questioned NYT: A review of public comments that Mr. Kirk has made over the last decade shows that while he may refer to himself as a former teacher, he does not talk about the brevity of his experience: a year in London at a private school and part-time in a nursery school as part of a work-study program while he was a student at Cornell University... A View From Both Ends of the Educational Spectrum Chicago News Cooperative (commentary): A sane system would include real standards. It would give flexibility to and demand accountability of principals. It would replace clearly mediocre teachers with clones of these two women... Chicago teachers pay freeze Tribune (editorial): e hope...
Tom Hess: How To Greatly Expand Your Guitar Teaching Business
2010-06-03 00:54:00 How To Greatly Expand Your Guitar Teaching Business By Avoiding The Most Common Mistakes Guitar Teachers Usually Make by Tom HessDo you struggle to attract and keep many guitar students who would remain highly loyal to you for many years? Do you have a hard time consistently creating highly advanced guitar students who are happy with their musical skills? Are you struggling to earn the kind of income from teaching guitar that you want and deserve?Many guitar teachers would nod in agreement to at least one of the question sabove. Many years ago, I was no different. I used to have a difficult time balancing the challenges of trying to help more guitar students, become a more effective guitar teacher, growing my guitar teaching income, and having anytime left at the end of the day. When I began teaching guitar, I had only a few guitar students and struggled to support myself on guitar teaching income only. My biggest challenges were getting consistent results wit...
Martz teaching Bears offense about field geography
2010-05-28 15:38:00 The Bears wide receivers are spending this offseason learning about field geography from Mike Martz. What's this? It sounds like some unnecessary college course but for the Bears receivers its a requirement. The basic premise is the receivers' ability to understand their route in relation to the field... I think. It also seems like there's a mix of philosophy and psychology blended into the curriculum too. As eloquently explained by CSN Chicago's John Mullin, field geography is "the place of each route in the overall".
Teaching 'The Wire' as Literature
2010-05-05 13:58:00 "The Wire" Season 4 (photo: HBO)Though I rarely think of anything intelligent, I did once say to my friend Scott as we watched Season 4 of the HBO drama "The Wire" that someday they would teach that show like any other text you'd find in a college classroom. Turns out courses have sprung up in several colleges (Harvard, Duke, Berkeley) around the country built entirely around the five seasons of "The Wire." NPR profiled one such course taught by Jason Mittell at Middlebury College. Obviously, teaching a course that deals with social issues like urban violence, the underground drug economy, failing inner-city schools and a decaying manufacturing sector (among others) at a lily-white New England college reeks of the...
Tom Hess: How To Get Started Teaching Guitar - 5 Things You Need to Know an
2010-05-02 22:26:00 How To Get Started Teaching Guitar - 5 Things You Need to Know and Do by Tom HessIf you want to teach guitar, then it's critically important to know what the most important steps are to becoming the best teacher you can be. Many people who have been teaching guitar for a long time don't know all 5 of the important things you are now going to learn about how to teaching guitar.Like most people, when I started teaching guitar I also didn't know much about how to teach well. I thought, because I was a good guitar player, that I would be able to teach well. That was false. In my first 10 years of teaching I had taught thousands of guitar lessons and thought I was really good. Fact is, like most guitar teachers, I was only mediocre. Over the next 10 years of my teaching, I finally began to learn the most effective ways to consistently help guitar students progress to very high skill levels in shorter periods of time.Here are 5 things you should know and do when getting started te...
True self-confidence undermined by Sai Baba?s teaching
2010-04-08 01:00:00 Self confidence versus denial of selfhood: The gradual creeping inward self-depreciation (misnamed as ‘limiting the ego’, or ’surrender of the self’) is well-known from many religious movements, ...
Fmr Teaching Asst: Religious, age, disability discrim at Malcolm X College
2010-03-18 21:28:00 A former teaching assistant at Malcolm X College says he was subjected to disability, religious, age and other discrimination while working at the school. Mohammad Shaikh says that in February 2008 he was assigned to the Physics Department which was "ill maintained," windowless and full of dust. Despite complaints to his superiors, the area was never cleaned and it posed a danger to Shaikh's existing heart condition and breathing problems, the complaint states. The complaint also states that Shaikh, a devout follower of Islam, was not allowed to take time for prayer, and was required to take his lunch break only between 11:00 to 11:45 a.m.Continue reading after the jump, including a copy of the complaint. Follow me on Twitter...
Switching Careers: From Business to Teaching
2010-02-21 21:59:00 Many of my friends are teaching one or two college courses, and a few have moved into full-time faculty positions. One friend gave up his long, unsuccessful search for a PR position in order to return to college for a year to get a teaching certificate. He's now an elementary school teacher and happy with his personally rewarding career choice. In each instance, these friends have had a variety of reasons for their decisions. Some simply are in the "give-back" mode of their careers. Several haven't had success in finding appropriate-level position-s in their fields. A couple have always wanted to be teachers but got onto other career paths due to opportunities that seemed more appealing (and profitable) at the time they were starting out. The Sunday New York Times...
Teaching Children to Give
2010-01-04 16:33:00 Teaching your Children to Give - What to do with those Old Toys Right after the Holidays or after your Children’s Birthday can be an excellent time to start teaching your children the benefits of helping the less fortunate people. Sometime children become very selfish. They have a roof over ...
How many light bulbs does it take to change teaching?
2010-01-03 12:52:00 Everyday my email inbox alerts me to at least one teacher who has become a new follower on Twitter. Now while I’m definitely not the best ed-tech guy in Twitterland to follow, I like to think that for each of those emails, a light bulb has switched on somewhere and a teacher is working to change, or ...
ESL Teaching: How Do You Say ?Jewish? in Your Language?
2009-12-15 19:30:00 Though it was an unnecessary feeling, I sometimes felt isolated as a Jew in Europe.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
By: GoBackpacking
ESL Teaching: How Do You Say ?Jewish? in Your Language?
2009-12-15 19:30:00 Though it was an unnecessary feeling, I sometimes felt isolated as a Jew in Europe.Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
By: GoBackpacking
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