Brendan Jacklin
Brendan Jacklin
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Canadian-American pianist Brendan Jacklin is a performer, teacher, lecturer, and new music advocate. A special interest of his involves performing interdisciplinary and multimedia music, performing works with electronics, video, poetry, and dance. Brendan has presented at conferences across Canada and the USA, including topics on recording technology, performance practice, and pedagogy.Brendan is a co-founder of A Seat at the Piano, an initiative to create a more equitably representative body of piano works, as well as Director of Programming for the Nashville Chamber Music Society. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano at Fisk University.Brendan completed his D.M.A. at the University of Cincinnati, with cognates in piano pedagogy and multimedia music. He received his M.Mus. from Bowling Green State University, and his B.Mus. at Brandon University with minors in cello performance and history. Previous teachers and mentors include Awadagin Pratt, Michelle Conda, Thomas Rosenkranz, Megumi Masaki, and Leanne Zacaharias.Based in Nashville, TN, when he is not doing any of the above, you can probably find Brendan running, baking, or reading. You can follow his baking or find upcoming concert and project details at www.brendanjacklin.com.
Session #11: The Limitations of Once-A-Week Lessons
Every summer, I am fortunate to teach at a music festival where I am able to work with pianists of all levels, from intermediate to advanced. At this festival, each student is tasked with learning a brand new piece of music over the course of ten days that is performed by memory at the final concert. Students receive a lesson every other day, participate in daily group classes, and are given daily scheduled practice times. Without fail, every single student is able to perform come the end of the festival, accomplishing in a week and a half what could take months during their regular studies. This experience both inspires and frustrates me. The work that the students are able to accomplish is incredible, but it raises the question why they cannot make similar progress during the year. We only see our students once a week during most of the year. What if the ubiquitous once-a-week lesson schedule is not the best for learning, but is a byproduct of modern day schedules and results in a highly fractured and inefficient learning experience for our students?This presentation explores research that demonstrates that many of the issues students face in their education are a result of inefficient teaching structures, highlighting research the suggests that multiple sessions per week results in a much stronger learning. We will also explore ideas such as the forgetting curve, spaced repetition, and efficient feedback that strengthen a student’s learning, ending with new models for educators that can help alleviate the inherent weaknesses of the once-a-week model.Session #11: The Limitations of Once-A-Week Lessons
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