Studio of Leah Brammer: Create Ready

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Create Ready

All of us are working on the process of lessons, such as how to arrive with calmness. When I say all of us, I mean myself, the parents that are new to the studio, and the returning parents as well. So, we are really always working on the most important points. To help your child in this endeavor, please make as much quiet listening space as possible for your child before the lesson.

We're focusing attention on the ready - the place of non-action - the place of stillness. Students continue to need this time, and practicing the ready every day creates a habit of becoming still before beginning to play the piano. Ultimately after many years of practice, it develops the ability to become still/focused inside as a conscious choice. Please continue.

When the process of learning is rooted in stillness/calmness, children feel nurtured in the doing rather than rushed, or pushed. This can be difficult to achieve in the middle of a busy schedule! It takes a strong intention to make the time and the place for a child to become still and focused.

This focus is the ready and is the potential for a high level of learning. Teaching this kind of focused attention is teaching how to learn.

At the beginning of this school year -Create Ready

*Please play the recording many hours every day. Internalized sound is a key component of "ready" to speak music.

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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.