Workshop details

The teacher training workshop is based on the graduate pedagogy course Paul Cesarczyk teaches at Mahidol University, College of Music, in Thailand.

The workshop will be six days long. Each day will be divided into two sessions: one core topic and one auxiliary topic. These sessions will be a combination of activities, materials, and in-depth discussion of each topic, re-enforced by selected readings from methods and journal articles.

The twelve musical concepts (pitch, melody, tempo, rhythm, harmony, dynamic, accent, direction, colour, intensity, counterpoint, articulation, silence) will be integrated into these discussions.

Core Topics
Session 1: Introduction and Sitting Position
Session 2: Right Hand
Session 3: Left hand
Session 4: Coordination
Session 5: Lesson Planning and Practicing
Session 6: Pedagogical Repertory

Auxiliary Topics
Session 7: Tremolo/Performance Anxiety/Tone/Harmonics
Session 8: Guitar Methods: Historical and Contemporary Session
9: Barre/Vibrato/Speed Session
10: Teaching Children Session
11: Classroom Guitar Cost of attendance

The workshop will be free for participants.
There will be no attendance/tuition fee for the course. who can attend.

This is a teacher training workshop. Any teacher of classical guitar from India is welcome to attend. Once a participant signs up for the course, they must stay for the entire duration.

Number of participants
Minimum:12
Maximum: 25

PANAJI, GOA
15-20 April 2015
Kala Academy, Panaji

DIMAPUR, NAGALAND 
23-28 April 2015
Hope Centre for Excellence