Useful Websites for Teachers

Organizations

• Suzuki Association of the Americas – Suzuki Association for North and South America
• Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)-professional organization for music teachers, articles, websites for kids
• The Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy
• pianoeducation.org – Great general piano website
• Music and Health has information about musician health, biomechanics and piano teaching
• Piano Education Resource Guide has many links to a virtual piano museum and many other piano related resources.
• Susan Paradis has many worksheets, game and creative teaching ideas

Practice

• Music Matters has many practice incentives you can share with parents
• Color in My Piano has lots of great suggestions for practicing for teachers and parents
• The Practice Shoppe has bead counters, little animals, Suzuki practice dice for sale
• Philip Johnston check out this website to get some creative inspiration about practice
• How to Memorize Music by Robert Kelley has good suggestions for memorization techniques

Group Class and Games

These websites have many inspirational suggestions for group class activities.

• Color in My Piano has the best collection of game ideas I have found yet. The Group Class games on this site are pretty awesome too!
• Layton Music  offers more group class inspirations
• Music Matters  has fun game ideas
• Layton Music has lots of fun suggestions for games
• Compose Create.com has both blog and game resources

Printables

All of the sites below offer free printable worksheets for note naming and other theory concepts.

• Color My Piano Printables
• Piano Worksheets by Susan Paradis, large variety of note naming, rhythm and game worksheets
• Note naming worksheets
• Theory Worksheets from My Fun Piano Studio
• Theory Worksheets from Pianimation.com

Blogs

• Color in My Piano has hundreds of articles about all aspects of  teaching
•  Piano pedagogy is another excellent website with oodles of articles about teaching
• The Piano Pedagogy Blog is a good website sponsored by Michigan State University College of Music
• TimTopham.com is an enthusiastic and fun blog to poke around and find interesting articles on teaching
• Music Matters blog has several great pedagogy articles
• Piano Teaching Today blog has some useful suggestions for talking with parents
• 88 Piano Keys is a beautiful site with many creative ideas and resources