I will be updating the blog every month with some thoughts about the school and music education in general, please feel free to leave suggestions and ideas for future topics in the comments section.

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I will be updating the blog every month with some thoughts about
the school and music education in general, please feel free to leave
suggestions and ideas for future topics in the comments section.
To start the ball rolling I will write a short series of articles focussing
on teachers, students and prospective students respectively. This
week, it being the first week, I will focus on the teacher.
For the teacher the question is: “How can the school help me to
achieve the best possible teaching environment and what can I do
to help other teachers?”
For me, the answer is in the question. A community of teachers is
built on just that: A community. As a teacher myself, I recognize
how defensive teachers are about their methods. The last thing any
teacher wants is for an “administrator type” to interfere with
techniques and methods honed over many hours of focussed
attention.
Yet, we each bring our own talents and skills to the lesson
environment and we can all stand to benefit from sharing ideas,
even if that only involves sharing a wish-list. Even if your ideas are
pie-in-the sky, you never know if there are other people with similar
ideas or who know of ways to implement them. After all, some crazy
schemes only require a critical mass of people to work and without
a sharing of ideas that critical mass can never occur.
The idea is not so much to have a suggestion box as it is to open
up some lines for discussion.
One thing that the school is planning for this year is to institute
regular concerts as well as a combined year-end concert event. The
regular concert series has in fact already kicked off and is being
held in the large room of the Bukit Timah branch on some Sunday
evenings at six, they have so far been a great success. So far,
these have been limited to my own and Jaclyn’s students, but the

2. idea is to open them up to other teachers as well to provide a
regular performance platform for their students.
Given the size of the venue the concert is limited to five students
(and their families) each performing two pieces. So it is a short,
intimate programme on the order of 30mins. I would like to
encourage and invite any teacher who wants to have their students
benefit from this platform to let us know, so we can include them on
the list for future concerts.
On a related note I can offer my own services for
typesetting/transcription/transposition of any music you may need in
your lessons. I use the LilyPond engraving programme and can
assist you with most reasonable, timely requests in this regard.
Finally I would like to encourage anyone who would like to share
some their ideas in the newsletter to let me know so I can include it
in future editions.
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