Speaking
Below is a list of Joy's available presentation topics. To view her calendar list of past and upcoming speaking engagements, click here. To schedule a workshop, please contact Joy.
NEW!
Effective Virtual Lessons During COVID-19
In this interactive session (designed for delivery via Zoom), we'll discuss how to teach online music lessons effectively during the COVID-19 times. We will cover technology setup, advantages and disadvantages of online lessons, effective pedagogy for both online and offline, virtual recitals, and more. These times are a learning experience for us all -- let's connect and share what we are learning!
Effective Virtual Lessons During COVID-19
In this interactive session (designed for delivery via Zoom), we'll discuss how to teach online music lessons effectively during the COVID-19 times. We will cover technology setup, advantages and disadvantages of online lessons, effective pedagogy for both online and offline, virtual recitals, and more. These times are a learning experience for us all -- let's connect and share what we are learning!
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Nurturing Young Composers in Your Music Studio
Do you have budding composers in your studio? Do you need a fresh approach for helping students with composition? Learn a five-step approach for guiding students to create, notate, and “publish” their own musical masterpieces!
Nurturing Young Composers in Your Music Studio
Do you have budding composers in your studio? Do you need a fresh approach for helping students with composition? Learn a five-step approach for guiding students to create, notate, and “publish” their own musical masterpieces!
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Teaching Music History: Lapbooks, Listening Games, and More
Looking for ways to incorporate more music history into your teaching? Learn how “lapbooking” about composers can inspire your students and how listening games can teach students to aurally recognize the style periods of Western classical music.
Teaching Music History: Lapbooks, Listening Games, and More
Looking for ways to incorporate more music history into your teaching? Learn how “lapbooking” about composers can inspire your students and how listening games can teach students to aurally recognize the style periods of Western classical music.
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First Year in the Musical Life of a Baby (or, Lessons Learned from My Youngest Student To Date)
This session has it all: storytelling, lessons learned, and most importantly, cute baby videos! Joy Morin shares her experience as a first time mom documenting her attempts to make short music sessions a regular part of baby Aria's first year. Come along and hear the lessons babies everywhere can teach us teachers about learning music.
First Year in the Musical Life of a Baby (or, Lessons Learned from My Youngest Student To Date)
This session has it all: storytelling, lessons learned, and most importantly, cute baby videos! Joy Morin shares her experience as a first time mom documenting her attempts to make short music sessions a regular part of baby Aria's first year. Come along and hear the lessons babies everywhere can teach us teachers about learning music.
Piano Method Mining: Gems from Past and Present
Join us as we embark on a survey of piano method books from the past to present! We'll begin with early European treatises and progress to contemporary American piano methods -- including some of the best resources at our fingertips resulting rom the new wave of self-published piano methods. You'll leave inspired to try out a new method book or two or incorporate certain nearly-forgotten gems as supplements into your teaching.
Join us as we embark on a survey of piano method books from the past to present! We'll begin with early European treatises and progress to contemporary American piano methods -- including some of the best resources at our fingertips resulting rom the new wave of self-published piano methods. You'll leave inspired to try out a new method book or two or incorporate certain nearly-forgotten gems as supplements into your teaching.
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Teaching the Way We Learn: 5 Principles from Gordon’s Music Learning Theory (MLT)
This session will present a primer on Edwin Gordon’s groundbreaking contributions to music education research and pedagogy -- known as Music Learning Theory (MLT) -- and share a variety of teaching strategies and activities for tapping into the way our minds naturally learn music: all towards the goal of provoking greater depths of musical literacy (i.e., "audiation") in our students. Created with and ideally co-presented with Amy Chaplin. |
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“♩= 1 beat” and Other Lies My Music Teacher Told Me
Why does music education typically teach false absolutes such as “a quarter note gets one beat”? Are we truly interested in teaching rhythm itself, or are we perhaps caught up in teaching rhythm notation? This session, based on tenants of Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory (MLT) explores how rhythm instruction can be approached more naturally and effectively through movement-based activities and aural comprehension (“audiation”). Discover new avenues for building rhythm, reading, and performance skills in your students. |
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Schumann's Big Bang: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Piano Literature for Children Join us to explore the circumstances prompting Robert Schumann to composed his well-loved Album for the Young, Op. 68 and the extent of its influence on following composers. This session presents repertoire gems resulting from some of the best collections composed after Schumann’s example. |
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Lessons for Piano Teachers from the Alexander Technique Ever wondered what it’s like to take Alexander Technique lessons? Learn how AT lessons can help with finding ease, avoiding discomfort, and reaching full potential as a musician – not only for you, but for your students. |
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Play More to Play Better: Building Musicianship Through Games Discover fresh and vibrant games that will engage and challenge your students. During this session, we will learn how to best choose or create music games that will inspire, activate, and spark memorable learning moments. |
Retired Topics
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App-laudable Uses of Apps in Music Lessons Come explore a framework for new technology’s incorporation into music lessons. Discover fun apps and ways to assess their usefulness to strike the optimal balance of the exciting digital world and traditional practices. |