Teacher Development
Teaching Kit for Multi-Level Group Lessons:
Course outlook:
Hour 1: Introduction & experiencing the fun of group lessons
Breakout room: who are you and why are you here? Creative activity
Hour 2: What is an ideal Suzuki group lesson?
How do we put “Every Child Can” in action in group lessons?
How do we put the “Suzuki Triangle” in action in group lessons?
Breakout room: One Suzuki idea group idea
Hour 3: Thinking and planning
Start compiling your GT (group teaching) Handbook that works for you:
Your purpose/vision/mission
Your values and strengths
Your improvement areas
Your long-term/short-term goals
Teaching tips and pedagogical values from this course
*Breakout room: listen and tweak your handbook with your
partners
Hour 4: Overview of different types of group lessons
Experiencing several popular group teaching ideas:
Twinkle Variation Potpourri/Simon says/Find the
Rosin/Popcorn/Note F goes on vacation/
*Breakout room: lead a group lesson idea and add new ideas to
your MLG teaching handbook
Hour 5: Classroom management
Space and behavioral managements
Ground rules: student’s role and parent’s role
Why is including the “non-players” important?
*Create ideas to include “non-players”
Hour 6 (In-person):
**Introducing Shu-Yi Scott MLG quadrant chart and how to use it.
The “three little pigs”
Hour 7(In-person):
Single-repertoire-focused group teaching
Single-skill-focused group teaching
Refining existing skills
Exploring unknown skills
Improvisation: modeling & free-composing
Teacher-led v.s. student-led
Breakout room: lead a single-rep and a single-skill activity and discuss the different pros and cons
Hour 8: Homogenous-instrument group teaching
Heterogeneous-instrument group teaching
Planning a lesson based on the SYS Quadrant Chart
From creating to implementing an activity
Breakout room: Experiencing a group lesson- Assignment 1
Hour 9: Scenario study- discussion
Warm-up activities
How to convince the parents who doubt the importance of group
lessons and try to get out of it?
Activities that include the parents- Assignment 2
Hour 10: Warm-up/opening activity Group lesson presentation
Hour 11: Scenario study- discussion for book 5-8 levels
Hour 12: Observation/pedagogy report discussion
SYS Quadrant Chart
Group lesson presentation
Hour 13: Lesson plan for a book 1-3 MLG lesson
Presentation
Hour 14: Lesson plan for a book 1-8 MLG lesson
Presentation
Hour 15: The future of group lessons
MLG handbook presentation
