Four ways neuroscience can inform educational practice Neuroscience has the potential for improving educational practice. However, there are still major[…]
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Tag: Educational Psychology
How do teachers stay motivated?
How do teachers stay motivated? Even wondered how a teacher stays motivated or how you motivate yourself to continue teaching?[…]
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Structured versus unstructured music practice strategies.
Structured versus unstructured music practice strategies. Barry (1992) investigated the effects on structured versus unstructured music practice strategies for brass and[…]
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Mastery Goals in Music
Mastery Goals in Music Hruska (2011) advocates for the use of mastery goals to increase music student motivation. He explains[…]
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Reward typologies
Reward typologies I have written previously why rewarding students in music lessons may not foster true intrinsic motivation. Rewards are complex[…]
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Using extrinsic rewards in the music studio
Using extrinsic rewards in the music studio Studio teachers may employ a variety of techniques to motivate students. These may[…]
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Autonomy support
Autonomy support My writing on this blog revolves mostly around student motivation. More precisely the events or behaviours that can[…]
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Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Music teacher assumptions and beliefs about student motivation
Music teacher assumptions and beliefs about student motivation Teachers come to teaching with assumptions and beliefs about student motivation[…]
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An interesting perspective on music education and research
An article by Nielsen (2009) has caught my attention because it discusses how music teachers in the classroom connect with music education research. More appropriately, the article points to the issue that little music education research is relayed to music classroom teachers and vice versa.
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