Journal 13: Second Annotation

1) Gipson, Ann M Group Lessons = Positive Results
American Music Teacher 55:3 (December 2005-January 2006) p. 18-21

This article is about positive results of group lessons by Ann Milliam Gipson. She is associated professor of music and derecter of piano pedagogy at Texas Christian University.


2) Kim, Chungwon. Nurturing Students Through Group Lessons
American Music Teacher 54:1 (August-September 2004) p. 28-31

This article is about group piano strategies for developing students' further musical skills. This article is having interview of Robert Pace who is one of the leading experts of group lesson.


3) Coats, Sylvia Curry. Thinking as you play : teaching piano in individual and group lessons / Sylvia Coats. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006

This book is including the introduction of group teaching, group growth, problem solving in group lessons and group dynamic.


4) Johnson, David W. Learning together and alone : cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning / David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1991

This book is about group work in education, individualized instruction, interaction analysis in education, and lesson planing.


5) McLain, Margaret Starr, Class piano, Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1974]

This book is about group pianoinstruction.


6) Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) , Keyboard experience and piano class instruction
, Washington : Music Educators' National Conference, 1957

Piano -- Methods -- Group instruction

Journal 12: Your First Source

Adderley Meisha. "Thinking as You Play: Teaching Piano in Individual and Group Lessons," by Sylvia Coats Music Educators Journal 93:4 (March 2007) p. 20-21Durable URL: http://gateway.proquest.com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:mpa:&rft_dat=xri:mpa:article:citation:iimp00506817

Adderley Mesha says this article offers information for insight to improve teaching skills for both priavete lesson and group lesson. It helps teachers to approach the two different kinds of lesson more effective way. Also, it provides brief information to techers about making the lesson plan in better way.

Journal 11: Research Question

I found the group piano lesson on the wikipedia, but it did not show anything. I guess this is becuase it is too narrow. I am interested in the piano pedogogy, especially in comparing and contrasting about group piano lesson and private one. I am not familiar with the group lesson but much familiar with private lesson which is more traditional and common.

What I know about this topic is that comparing to old traditional private lesson, the group piano lesson has short history and there are still lots of discussions about comparing these two things, such as which one can bring the most effective results.

Thus, I will do some research on group lesson, like making plan about lesson, and grouping the students, how to manage effectively the whole class, and what are some benefits of group lesson.

I read Dennis' and Yoojin's

Journal 10: Researh topics

The topic that interests me would be the piano pedagogy as a topic becuase it is deeply related to my major, piano performance, and now I am taking a piano pedagogy class. Thus, I think writing about this this would help me to have deeper understanding of group lesson so that I can get some practical benefits in terms of teaching students in the future.

To be specific, I might be focusing on the compare and contrast between group pino lesson and private piano lesson. I think that would help me have deeper understanding of piano pedagogy.

Journal 9: American food

If someone says lets go to eat American foods, the first thing that comes my mind would be hamberger. American traditional foods that I know are chiken soup, steak, pizza, fried chiken, franch fries, and coke.

These are the food I enjoy sometimes, but not everyday. All the American food that I mentioned above is meet. Eating sometimes like twice a week is ok, but eating only hambergers everday and other gresy meet food would be honestly, nightmare to me. I think American food is too greasy and high in calories, cuasing diabities to many peole. I am not the person who enjoy hambergers. If I had to pick choose one thing, I would choose chiken soup, which is similar to Korean chiken soup becuase I like the soup making me feels warm and comfortable.

Usually, I eat rice and a lot of kinds of side dishes which are mostly vergitables. Since I eat many kinds of side dishes with rice and soup, people and get belanced nutrition but not in high calories. Another main difference is that there are various kinds of slow food in Korea like Kimch, Duenjang that are all made of vagitables. On the contrary, the American food are usually made of meet like beef, chiken, porks, having high calories.