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**Oclef Podcast**

On this show, we interview experts who help children to develop their talents. These experts can be in music, arts education, sports or an academic teacher. Basically, anyone who works regularly with children or develops programs for them. On this show, we are looking to share the strategies, secrets, and processes that these experts use every day to help kids become great.

Latest Episodes:

Oclef Interviews | EP28 - Irina Gorin - The Iconic Trailblazer in Piano Teaching Sep 23, 2018

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She's amazing. What else is there to say about Irina? :)

Check out Tales of A Musical Journey and the rest of her work here - http://www.irinagorin.com/

Enjoy!

Julian

Oclef Daily: EP83 - Recapping the Parent Recital Sep 18, 2018

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They did it!

Many parents loved the experience of preparing, learning and performing with their child.

My main goal is really to help them get into the learning process with their child. To become part of the piano learning environment.

Regardless of the result, they will gain confidence and more trust from their kids who are learning piano. As well as a better understanding for how it feels to learn piano.

You should definitely try this event if you have a studio!

Julian

Oclef Interviews | EP27: Michelle Conda - A Leading Teacher of Piano Teachers Sep 15, 2018

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This interview is a wonderful conversation with Michelle Conda of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM).

She's spent the last 25 years developing CCM as one of the top schools in the world to go learn how to teach piano. She has a talent for developing adults as teachers and in today's podcast she goes into

The history of how she arrived where she is today
Her views and stories on teaching adults
Her overall direction as a world-class teacher in piano pedagogy and andragogy

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

Julian

Oclef Daily: EP82 - The Teaching Window Sep 14, 2018

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Today I dive into the idea of how learning happens.

For me, learning happens through an input that I call a "window".

The window opens from the student's connection with the teacher.

But parents have such a stronger bond and larger window with their children than any teacher can even imagine. So as teachers working with students, we spend time asking students "How was your week?" and do whatever we can to bond with them.

But the reality is that their parent will always have a larger window to educate their child through.

So why not build up the parent?

Why not redesign your studio around the education of parents?

What if that child received 7 lessons a week from their mother or father instead of 1 from you?

Yes, the parents don't know as much about music. But all great music teachers know that teaching music is more about the process than the knowledge.

Teach parents to teach. You'll be surprised.

Oclef Daily: EP81 - Redefining Teaching Roles Sep 13, 2018

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Have you ever considered getting your parents, of your students, to teach in the lesson?

What skills do they actually need to know in order for the child to improve?

With the Oclef Method we see the parent and child as a teacher and student team guided by the actual teacher.

By redesigning the role of parents as a teacher, how will that impact students and their development?

Try it.

You may be surprised.

The tortoise always wins,

Julian

Oclef Daily: EP80 - Parent Recital Sep 12, 2018

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Yep.

I'm having parents play in a recital with their kids.

The backstory really explains it all. But the main idea here is role shifting.

As educators, find ways to get your parents into their role as a teacher of the child as we shift into the coach of the parent and child team.

The tortoise always wins,

Julian

Oclef Q&A EP010 - How do I improve my sight reading? Sep 11, 2018

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Great question! The standard answer would be for you to practice lower level pieces (i.e. level 3 if you're level 5). And do that every day for about 15 minutes. It will improve as long as you're consistent and patient. Try Rhythm books really help if you have a deficiency in rhythmic reading and patterns. I'm the video I've showed you an example of one and how to use it. Let me know if you have any additional questions. Good luck! The tortoise always wins, Julian

Oclef Daily: EP79 - Be weird. Be awkward. Be quirky. Be you. Aug 28, 2018

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I've always thought this.

Weird, awkward and quirky things about people are the best things. The best.

But for whatever reason, I've only recently applied it throughout my teaching and consulting.

I used to work with students and use archetypes to be more efficient in my teaching.

Big mistake.

Nowadays, it's all about finding the weirdest thing I can find about students and using that as their strength. Playing their unique traits and views as their strengths allows them to have a better outcome almost every time.

It's the better bet.

But, it means that you won't have a studio full of competition pianists. It means you'll have a studio or school full of all different types of pianists.

If you teach students this way. Questioning them. Learning their views. And then help them be themselves. They will forever love you. Simply because you're helping them be themselves. You're giving them permission to be the person they are and not asking them to conform to someone or something they're not.

And that! That's the art of teaching to me.

Learning the student, their parents, and understanding their "wacky world". So that you can help them build it with them at every lesson, practice, and experience together.

Oclef Q&A: EP009 - How do pianists make interpretive choices? Jul 30, 2018

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Oclef Daily: EP78 - Tools of the Oclef Method: Priming, Narration, and Feedback Jul 29, 2018

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This is an episode from our Oclef Method. It's a series for parents wanting to help their children during practice. Find all the episodes for our methodology that teaches parents here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUqEmaLrf_Fs-Cvyk1HvOkA

Guidance

As a parent, you can help your child with this so much.

Navigating a piece of piano music can be daunting.

Two staves, multiple pages, hands going in opposite directions and that's just the notes.

As a parent who is sitting with your child, you have an opportunity to:

• Keep focused on practice

• Build proper habits

• Understand mistakes

• Improve faster

I could go on...(for a while).

But in this episode of the Oclef Method, you will get an introduction to three skills that you can develop to help your child practice piano.

Priming. Narration. Feedback.

Priming:

Mentally preparing your child for what is coming in the piece of music in front of them.

Narration:

Guiding their attention through the play through to focus on the challenges as they happen (counting, hand position changes, intervals).

Feedback:

Observing the patterns in their mistakes and telling them what to watch out for next time.

It's really about helping them just enough to get them on the right path. With the right habits. And observing the right details.

It sounds like a lot to learn, but this is just the first step toward your child receiving seven lessons a week with you at their side. Independence is the goal.

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