Simply Music Piano: Ready to Teach? - Personal Assessment

D o you have what it takes to be a great piano teacher?

SIMPLYMUSICPIANO.COM SIMPLY MUSIC PIANO: ‘Ready to Teach?’ Personal Assessment

Welcome to the Simply Music Piano (3 step) Teacher Assessment. Please watch the short video found on the page where you downloaded this PDF and follow along with the steps below.

Your Mindset 1 On the left you’ll see a list of 8 mindsets, beginning with Open Minded. Let’s use that one as an example. When you look at the Open Minded category, to the right you will see 4 boxes. Each box has a description of open mindedness. Above each box, there are 3 numbers. The numbers express the degree to which the statement is true for you. For example, in Open Mindedness, I most closely agree with the fourth column over and I’m probably a 10. So, I would give myself a score of 10 in the scoring area. As you go down the list, assess yourself, thinking about what is truest for you and to what degree it is true. After you have scored yourself for all 8 categories, you can total the score and see where you land in terms of your mindset. See video for full details on how to complete this table*.

Mindset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Score

You hold on to You consider You want to expand You embrace new outdated perspectives new thinking and and learn, but still ways of seeing things. and see alternative approaches, but hesitant to embrace You’re an ‘out-of- Open thinkers as are still reluctant new thinking. You the-box’ thinker. lightweights or not and uncertain. You continue to grow, but Old precepts don’t Minded credible. You don’t implement new things prefer a slow, steady limit you. Your best like change, and resist but still with hesitation approach that’s more work comes from things that are new and doubt. mainstream. unconventional and challenging. thinking. You’re skeptical, You’re mostly cautious You’re generally You’re naturally cynical and suspicious about things, and positive about drawn to seeing a of anything that looks go back-and-forth things, but don’t positive and valuable Sees ‘positive’. You always between the up-side want to appear to perspective in every everything see a down-side to and the down-side. be ‘too enthusiastic’. situation. You see positively things, and are always You balance this You prefer a more everything, at some on edge and always by generally being restrained and level, as an exciting fear the worst. emotionally ‘ﬂat’. moderate approach to opportunity for things. growth. You are insecure You do trust but only You want to trust You trust your decision and need lots of over time and with yourself, but are and your choices. information to make proof and reason still unsure. You Once you’ve chosen, Trusting decisions, but don’t to. You need to feel make progress with you trust the process trust the information secure, and limit your things, but often feel and the outcome. you receive. You are choices to mostly uncertain about how fearful and always staying with the the impact of your doubt your abilities. ‘safest’ route. decisions will unfold. You hold others You are reluctant to You’re happy to You are an accountable for your get into action and, implement but need implementer. You success and failures. when things go wrong, lots of reassurance. decide on a course of Action You want and expect you hold others You’re hesitant about action, set your goals, others to do and accountable. You think setting goals and open your mind, listen Taker provide things for you. your way is always the taking action. You to your coaches, act You don’t do anything best way. listen to input, but accordingly, and get you don’t have to. feel safer relying on into action. yourself.

You refuse to take You take risks You proceed with You will put yourself risks, and always feel occasionally, but only things but worry about on the line and threatened. You strive those that appear the risks. You make embrace change. Risk to keep life ‘normal’ by safest. Anything changes, but slowly You aren’t fearful maximizing certainty, that disrupts your and with resistance. of personal and Taker predictability and ‘norm’ makes you You’re influenced by professional growth. security. uncomfortable, so the opinions of others What others see changes are few and regarding risks. as risk, you see as infrequent. opportunity. You do things only You have a tolerance You’re a capable You are strong and while they are for putting up with person, and see self-assured. When convenient and things being difficult, yourself as you decide on a comfortable. You have but withdraw easily ‘reasonable’. course Determined a ‘what’s the point?’ and then don’t give You generally stay of action, you set attitude when things things your all. You with things but still goals and stick with it get tough, and often carry an underlying find it easy to think - whatever it takes, for feel like you are a sense of resignation. of reasons to not see as long as it takes. failure. things through. You avoid anything You put yourself in You learn from You love to learn, and that challenges you situations that require experience, but love being around Always to grow, and you you to grow, but soon mostly rely on the people who can growing & surround yourself with fall back into old comfort of your own teach and coach you. people who are like- patterns. You have a perspectives. You You’re excited by new expanding minded. You like to desire to be bigger, grow over time, but perspectives, and love complain and defend but still feel stuck and this is done carefully, forward-thinking that your position. somewhat limited. cautiously and slowly. challenges you. You don’t like to You are willing to be You like teams, but You believe that give, and you isolate a part of a team, but prefer things to be playing with a team is yourself from others. prefer to stand back. done your way. When more fun and valuable Supporter Even when you When things go wrong things don’t go your than playing alone. have something to you lean towards way you’d prefer to You have something to contribute you refuse holding others go it alone. You are offer, and it’s a priority to share and assist accountable. mostly willing to for you to contribute others. contribute with others. to others. Mindset score    

Your Mindset - Score Make a note of your Mindset Score. This is one of the scores that will contribute to your total Mindset & Fundamental Attributes (MFA) Score.

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© Simply Music. All rights reserved. SIMPLYMUSICPIANO.COM Your Fundamental Attributes 2 Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being ‘a little or not at all’ and 5 being ‘a lot or very much’ on the following areas:

Fundamental Attributes 1 2 3 4 5 Rate

1. You love people. You like being with people and are liked by people. 1 2 3 4 5

2. You value music and the role it plays in your life. 1 2 3 4 5

3. You value music and the role it plays in other people’s lives. 1 2 3 4 5

4. You have a capacity and a willingness to learn new things. 1 2 3 4 5

5. You have a capacity and a willingness to think outside of the box. 1 2 3 4 5

6. You are coachable. 1 2 3 4 5

7. You believe in yourself. 1 2 3 4 5

8. You are committed to expanding personally and professionally. 1 2 3 4 5

Fundamental Attributes Score

Your Fundamental Attributes - Score Make a note of your Fundamental Attributes Score. This is one of two scores that will contribute to your total Mindset & Fundamental Attributes (MFA) Score.

© Simply Music. All rights reserved. SIMPLYMUSICPIANO.COM Music Experience Assessment 3 Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being ‘little or none at all’ and 5 being ‘a lot or very proﬁcient’, please assess the following areas of your knowledge & expertise:

Areas of Experience 1 2 3 4 5 Rate

Repertoire - The size and diversity of the body of music that 1 2 3 4 5 can be played without the need for music notation.

Classical - Experience playing this style of music. 1 2 3 4 5

Contemporary - Experience playing this style of music. 1 2 3 4 5

Blues - Experience playing this style of music. 1 2 3 4 5

Jazz - Experience playing this style of music. This includes knowing the common array of jazz-style chords as well as how 1 2 3 4 5 to read and use Lead Sheets.

Accompaniment - Experience with, and the ability to read contemporary chord symbols, and play these in an 1 2 3 4 5 accompaniment style while playing along with another instrument or vocalist.

Arrangement - Experience with, and the ability to play additions (enhancements, developments, and variations) on an 1 2 3 4 5 established composition, including the ability to self-generate these additions.

Reading Rhythm - Experience with, and the ability to 1 2 3 4 5 accurately read and replicate rhythm as written on the page.

Reading Pitch - Experience with, and the ability to accurately 1 2 3 4 5 read and replicate pitch as written on the page.

Sight Reading - The ability to accurately and immediately play on the keyboard, in a musical fashion, that which is written on 1 2 3 4 5 the page.

Transcription - Experience with, and the ability to hear music (whether notes and/or rhythm) and accurately write it on the 1 2 3 4 5 page.

Composition - Experience with, and the ability to assemble 1 2 3 4 5 melody, harmony and bass lines into an original composition.

Improvisation - Experience with, and the ability to spontaneously assemble notes and chords into melodic and 1 2 3 4 5 rhythmic phrases.

Scale - A knowledge of the formula for creating scales, a knowledge of and experience with your structure on the 1 2 3 4 5 keyboard, and the ability to physically navigate the scales and scale passages with practical, comprehensive fingering.

Key Signature - A knowledge of and experience with the various major and minor keys, and their respective sharps and 1 2 3 4 5 flats.

Integrated Theory - A practical, hands-on relationship with and knowledge of music, including its form, the theory behind its structure, the ability to identifying and name chords, scale 1 2 3 4 5 and scale-passages, keys and progressions etc., within any given piece of music.

Music Experience Assessment Score

Music Experience Assessment - Score Please make a note of your Music Experience Assessment score for future reference. Should you decide to proceed with teaching Simply Music Piano, this will play a signiﬁcant role in our ability to support, assist and guide your development.

NOTE: Don’t forget to save this document or screenshot your scores for future reference!