Studio of Leah Brammer: 25_Twinkle Lessons and Core Education

Friday, March 26, 2010

25_Twinkle Lessons and Core Education

Dear Parents,
The students can play many pieces now. We are balancing learning new repertoire with developing skills and habits. Please keep the focus on the most important points to continue to progress and develop ability:

1. Life Ability-Spend as much time on the ready position as possible in every practice. This will develop awareness and intention.
2. Natural Learning-Listen to the disc as much as possible in every 24 hour period.
3. Whole Learning-Continue to encourage free time at the piano while differentiating the practice time with more discipline.
4. Integral Learning- Focus on the inspirational quadrant by listening to performances from the Core Studio video blog, and disc for books 2 and 3.
5. Ability Development-Help your child connect moving their fingers with the sound they are making. This is possible when the ready position is good so that the hand is relaxed and the mind is focused. Do repetitions on the assigned spots and ask for moving fingers.
6. Core Focus-The most important point to come back to at this time is "ready".
7. Positive Affirmation-Everyone is making progress. Progress is not necessarily in a "straight line". We are learning balance and depth at the same time we are moving forward.

These are the seven principles of core education.
all the best,
Leah Brammer

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Core Education Principles

1. Life Ability
Core Education develops life ability- the ability to live life optimally.

2. Natural Learning
Core Education utilizes and preserves natural learning, which is direct learning from the environment.

3. Whole Learning
Children learn through absorption of the total environment rather than part by part. This is sometimes called ”right-brain learning” Whole learning is a better way to describe this absorption as it involves both the right brain (learning through the senses/intuition and left brain (analytical) types of learning working together.

4. Ability Development
Pattern recognition and the forming of relationships between these patterns can be developed through repetition for optimum learning. This then includes physical ability, mental/memory, emotional balance and spiritual development as well. This is the balancing concept of whole learning and involves understanding of learning in relationship to sequencing and the development of ability through the acquisition of foundation skills

5. Integral Learning
Core learning involves recognition and support for the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of development in combination with mental/cognitive learning to form life abilities.

6. The core focus principle of nurturing:
This principle is that the most fundamental aspect in a child’s learning must always be addressed rather than focusing on the content of what is being learned. It is finding the core aspect of the process that will produce the easiest and quickest way to learn. It is closely connected to Ability Development.

7. Positive affirmation
Core education involves affirmation as a critical component of feedback for the child. Using verbal acknowledgment of that which is correct will accelerate learning. It is not a judgment such as good or bad, but is a positive statement of fact to the child about how they are learning.

Through understanding and applying these principles teachers and parents can recreate the concept of education from the learning of facts to the development of ability.