If you don't want to ruin your child's future, please read it patiently.
About the author: Piano teacher of a university in Beijing, master of piano from Paris Conservatory of Music, France.
It is a good thing for children to receive a good art education from an early age. However, parents' comparison psychology has spawned the children's art training market, and various training institutions have blossomed everywhere, among which there are many people who make up the wrong number. Some say they graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and some say they are from Central Conservatory of Music ... They refuse to check, which is pure deception. Individual teachers may have been to these schools for short-term training, so they claim to be graduates of such and such schools. It is urgent to standardize the management of amateur teaching teachers and educate parents what kind of teachers to choose.
1. What are the criteria for a good teacher? 1, it depends on the piano teacher's actual playing ability (how can someone who can't play well teach others? What do you mean by having a good time? To put it bluntly, the first thing is technology (that is, playing fast, people who play fast must have problems with their methods. The most common mistake parents make is not seeing the teacher really playing big music. Many piano teachers can only do some simple demonstrations of 599,740. You know, it's nothing. Children's music is simple. A qualified piano teacher must be able to play well, such as Liszt's rhapsody, Chopin's ballad, concerto, Beethoven's sonata (Dawn, Pathetique, etc. ), Bach's three creative works, etc. And technically there should not be too much burden. The teacher had better have won the authoritative international and domestic professional piano competition prize, which is even more telling. ) Because of my parents' ignorance of the piano, I think the teacher can play Dedicated to Alice, Wedding in My Dream and Turkish March very well. In fact, these are all amateur songs of about level 6, which simply do not reflect the teacher's level. The popular piano in Richard Clayderman has become popular. It makes most parents in China feel that it is great to play with his works. In fact, all his works are only elementary works under professional piano playing. Of course, I'm not saying that clayderman is not a high-level pianist, but his strength lies in his accomplishment of arranging music with the whole band. (known as popular piano music) in terms of piano playing skills, it really can't reflect the level of a piano teacher. As the saying goes, you are not afraid of not having good goods, but you are afraid of comparison. Compare your teacher with pianists such as Lang Lang and Di Yun. The closer the level, the better. In addition, a good teacher must be someone who has extensive contact with classical, romantic and modern composers' works, such as Haydn, clementi, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Debussy and Ravel. 2. Of course, only technology without music is not a good performance. We should play the composer's soul with first-class musical sense and accurate analysis of the works. A good teacher should also have excellent language ability and be able to teach in vivid language. 4. Have a basic understanding of the history of music culture at all times and in all countries, and be familiar with the styles of various composers. 5. It is best to be a full-time piano teacher in a university (don't trust people who run schools in society). Of course, there are also university teachers, especially those in their thirties and forties. At that time, piano education was relatively backward, and most of them graduated from normal colleges, but they just caught up with the good opportunity and occupied that position. Later young people, no matter how talented, could not apply for that school. 6. Don't think that many graduates from conservatories must be good at playing and teaching. Many people worked hard before entering the Conservatory of Music. Only a teacher who insists on practicing the piano, learning from the teacher and learning after work can be trusted. 7. Don't blindly believe in academic qualifications. Nowadays, many people go abroad to study for master's degree in order to evaluate their professional titles, especially the National Conservatory of Music in Belarus, the Conservatory of Music in Ukraine and Armenia. In fact, these schools have very low requirements for majors. What matters is the language. A student in these schools often spends more than 90% of his energy on learning languages in the first year, and then begins to learn piano in the second year. In the second half of the year, I was busy with thesis defense and job hunting, so I couldn't really learn the piano. After studying in conservatories in these backward countries for two years, it is better to find good teachers in conservatories and other conservatories in Shanghai center after graduation. In short, going abroad is to get a diploma.
Second,-A good student playing does not mean a good teacher teaching. The trick that many teachers often use is: My students won the gold medal in a competition, so you have to believe that I teach well. At first glance, it seems reasonable, but it is not. First, are the award-winning photos of the students he showed really his students (some teachers borrowed students from others)? Second, even his students, how many classes have you had with him? Many piano teachers (especially institutions) choose those "gifted" children in various places to give them free lessons, regularly introduce them to the professors of the Conservatory of Music, and privately discuss with their parents that they are students brought out by themselves. Let the students perform on every important occasion and show the teaching achievements of this institution. This phenomenon can be seen everywhere in the entertainment circle. A celebrity became famous, and many people who claimed to be the celebrity's teachers sprang up all over the country overnight. Some people have taught her while others are his teachers. Of course, he has been instructed, but it is only a few classes. Did these courses make him successful? It can only be said that the teacher was lucky and met the potential stocks in the future like winning the lottery. This phenomenon often happens to some older teachers. It's simple. With more teaching experience, there will naturally be a few talented teachers, especially in the 1980 s and 1990 s, there were very few teachers engaged in art in the province. Almost all of them are his students. Even if students are not famous, there will always be one or two good students. Then they said they were their great-grandchildren. China people believe in authority and age, and there is a serious phenomenon of seniority in the art world. Unknown so, a parent, feels that the older he gets, the more authority he has. In fact, most of the old teachers who started teaching in the 1980s and 1990s have always used the old teaching methods, which have not been improved for decades. But busy making money, raising a family, evaluating professional titles, etc., which is easy to be exemplified. At present, old teachers working in universities, high schools, art schools and other units are not as good as college graduates in vocal music and piano, but now they are. Don't be fooled by the scale and elegant environment of the art center: to put it bluntly, anyone with money can do it beautifully, not hardware, but software (hired teachers), just like a high-end consumer place, the environment is beautiful, but the same thing is much more expensive than outside, and the wool is on the sheep.
Three. Insider of China Amateur Piano Grading System: When the reporter asked German piano educator Kay Moline to talk about China Amateur Piano Grading System, he seriously said that China's piano grading system was so bad that he didn't want to mention it, and it was not a good idea for children to only practice fixed tracks to take the grading test. Playing the piano should be a persistent task and should be developed in an all-round and balanced way, instead of reciting several songs over and over again. According to Kamelin, there is no so-called graded exam in Europe. Instead, the school often holds concerts so that every student has a chance to perform, so as to test which tracks the students have learned and what level they have reached. The teacher then finds out the shortcomings according to the students' performance and puts forward suggestions for correction. According to the author's understanding, on the one hand, because parents are eager for quick success and instant benefit, they ask their children to learn the piano quickly and only play graded songs, mainly by reciting. I think as long as I finish the exam, I will master a skill, and I will not learn it after the exam. On the other hand, in order to meet the demands of parents, many teachers are eager for success, do not follow scientific progress, and unilaterally pursue exams. It even took a year to prepare for the exam, which led to the growth of seedlings. Moreover, teachers also compete with each other. Who can let the children finish the exam in the shortest time, who has the greatest ability. . Because grading examination is not only a simple grading examination activity, it has been linked to the economy, which also brings corresponding problems. In recent years, more and more institutions have taken part in the examination. Now there are Central Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music, local art colleges and China Musicians Association. It's really dazzling Some people take a fancy to the great benefits brought by exams. With the frequent increase of grading units, there will be mutual exclusion and competition. Is everything not normal? The phenomenon of candidates, such as how many students will be given corresponding kickbacks. The more students there are, the greater the rebate amount and the higher the pass rate. After all, the unit that passed the exam also needs to eat. In this way, the more large-scale and well-funded training institutions, the higher the pass rate, the better the enrollment. The more students have the right to speak. If you don't pass my students, I will take other exams, but it's not. It is also difficult for parents to judge which is the most authoritative in this cycle, which directly leads to bad consequences. There is a "strange phenomenon" that lowers the examination standard. For example, if you fail in Grade 8, you will be given a Grade 7 certificate, and you will even have to pay the registration fee. Give certificates for good or bad performance. What's more serious is that some small county and city musical instruments often can't guarantee their own teaching quality, but they are implemented under the brand of provincial or national examination institutions, which is actually misleading children, thus completely losing the significance of the examination. We should know that the real significance of grading examination should be to grasp quality education through grading examination and promote the popularization and development of music education, and grading examination activities cannot be a way to make money. "Parents' mentality is understandable. What matters is the teacher's guidance. Many extracurricular art education teachers are keen to recommend students to take exams, pursue exam results and increase their weight. There is a simple reason. If the student grade examination rate of a musical instrument store is high, it will naturally become a signboard for their enrollment. Unknown so, the parent, always does what the teacher says and goes wherever he is recommended. Insiders pointed out that the grading examination has been marketized and there is a chain of interests behind it. Only by striving for students can grading examination institutions make a profit. It is understood that each student needs to pay a fee ranging from 80 to 200 yuan. A year later, only this city is a market with a million yuan or more. The direct consequence of competition is that the grading standards are becoming more and more relaxed, and the pass rate is as high as 95%! "In fact, at present, there are more than 100 art schools and musical instruments in our city, and some of them run schools in front of stores. Their teachers' after-school art teachers come from several sources: piano graduates from conservatory of music (good and bad) and music education graduates from normal schools (all of whom are exposed to music during school and belong to a hodgepodge). I advise you to find a professional teacher, so you can avoid detours. Basically, those who work part-time (especially full-time) in various institutions teach very generally, because really good teachers often have a good reputation and there is no shortage of students at home, so they will not work part-time. The full-time ones didn't find a formal job at all, so they could only make a living by misleading their children in the musical instrument store.
Over the years, all kinds of media and experts and scholars have been discussing the same question, the so-called utilitarian harm of music classification and where to go. In my opinion, we should not shy away from the utility of music grading. Because we are all ordinary people living in the world, learning music has the same purpose as learning other kinds of knowledge and skills, either as a profession, as a hobby or as a pastime. The original intention of parents is the same: some are preparing for their children's future studies; Some hope that children can learn one more skill, as the saying goes, "multi-skills don't weigh down"; Some hope that children will take this as their career in the future; What's more, because children have this interest, it doesn't matter whether they have a career in the future. But once the entrance examination is linked to employment, it is difficult to escape the word "utility". The author just wants to tell parents how to establish the goal of learning piano; How to identify a good piano teacher; How to learn the piano, how not to give up halfway.
In my opinion, solving these basic problems is the most urgent thing for parents of Qin Tong. Otherwise, it will not only waste a lot of money and energy, but also waste children's precious childhood. Poverty inherits the wind! Parents, after so much effort, why can't some people see any effect? After all, learning the piano needs a reward to be considered "worth learning". Since so much money has been spent, why not reflect on whether we can find the right way to learn the piano, truly master a skill and enjoy it for life? In fact, these parents can avoid such an embarrassing situation as long as they know more.
I recently read an article entitled "Liu Shikun Criticizes the Present Situation of Piano Education in China". The article mentions some bad phenomena of "piano fever" in current society. The piano teacher is not professional enough to be qualified. In Liu Shikun's view, what kind of teachers are qualified? "Ten years of professional training, this is the most basic." Liu Shikun's answer is beyond doubt. But the reality is far from it. If you go deep into all kinds of dazzling piano training classes, except the students who graduated from the orthodox piano department, you will find that most of the teachers are distributed in this way: some originally studied erhu, pipa and other national musical instruments, and some also studied vocal music and even music theory. Some teachers, who never demonstrate in class, let students practice with music scores, tick them after class and let students take them home to practice. "I just have to deal with things, and I may not be able to play by myself." What makes Liu Shikun helpless is that "piano teacher" is increasingly endowed with some symbols-good social status, rich economic income and relaxed freelancer status. Naturally, more and more non-professionals will aim at this scenic spot. The number of piano players is growing rapidly, but the number of teachers is far behind. After ten years of study, professional teachers "can only teach a few students one by one." In this case, no one can avoid those who make up the numbers. "
Four. -Institutions and piano teachers are too good at packaging themselves: celebrities generally have no sense of social responsibility, and use their reputation to set up centers all over the country, and the actual situation of teachers is not supervised at all. As long as the affiliated institutions pay the joining fee every year, no matter what level of teachers they recruit, the economic accounts are very clear: if they recruit good teachers, the class fees demanded by others will be high, while the relative institutions will earn instead. Take photos with celebrities from all over the country and package them. It is said that a pianist regularly gives guidance to the center teacher. The teacher's teaching level has been praised by the master. This is a commercial society, as long as you have money, you can operate anything, which is too similar to star advertising. As long as the money is given, the big shots don't care whether what he speaks for is true or not, as long as they smile at each other, add some sweetness to Jinyuan, and reach out without smiling. Masters often don't refute people's faces, take a photo, write a message, make a message, and so on. Master XXX visited a musical instrument store and gave the institution a high evaluation, which naturally appeared in the official report (as long as the article is published now, the newspaper doesn't care about your authenticity, and no one has a problem with money). I have been to most institutions in Dalian, and I am very proud of the piano industry in Dalian. Most of them are students of several top piano educators in China, and the intimate photos are as harmonious as family members. I deeply envy that there are only dozens of piano educators, but there are hundreds of thousands of piano teachers. If these people learn from the master for a long time (the master is afraid of exhaustion), the actual situation is that they have only attended one class, or even never attended it. The purpose of the visit is to take photos, not to learn the mechanical piano. For example, if the teacher you choose is 100, you can give the money to the organization. What does it mean to really go to the teacher's house and learn that 100 belongs to the teacher? There are so few students in the teacher's family that they can only be exploited in institutions in their spare time. Why are there fewer students? It's just that the level is not good, so that's what happens when you go to an institution. The money of poor parents is divided into two groups. Almost all institutions will invite a local piano authority to be their teaching consultant, and the teaching level of the consultant is often good. The purpose of inviting him is: he also attends classes, and the class fee is very expensive, because people take students with the highest price in the local area, for example, 200, which is generally 300 in the organization (the organization will earn a part). Second, lied that the expert trained the teachers of the center for a long time and led them to engage in scientific research. In fact, people who can do this level have no time to do these jobs. Even if the teaching and research is conducted once a month at most, it will have little effect on improving the level of teachers in the center. In addition, don't think that people who get older must be authorities. I graduated from the piano department of Wuhan Conservatory of Music. After graduation, I returned to my hometown Hefei. Because I am a native, I know all the local educational institutions like the back of my hand, and I also know the teaching level of local so-called experts like the back of my hand. From the perspective of our conservatory of music, the method is too problematic. Like Anhui province, there is no conservatory of music. The level of piano education is difficult to meet international standards. Only a few conservatories are trained to support the whole education market. Most talented students are fooled by institutions, and powerful teachers can only accept the average. Students with poor quality, no matter how high the teacher level is, can not achieve the effect. If the vicious circle continues, the organization will become stronger and stronger, and the stronger it is, the more attractive it will be. . . . . .
5.- All institutions collude with training institutions: At present, more and more institutions make a living by holding competitions. In many competitions, the proportion of gold and silver awards is as high as 30%. As long as you participate, you can win the Excellence Award. Euphemistically called encouraging children. In fact, you are afraid that you won't come back next time, or you think your child has no talent to stop learning. That's ridiculous. Gold and silver medal winners only have one certificate, and the total cost of a medal is less than that of 8 yuan. The registration fee for players is as high as 200-300, and all training institutions are willing to cooperate. People from any organization give a high proportion of gold and silver prizes. Some people may say that the competitions I participated in are all international competitions. How can it be irregular? I don't know what proportion of gold medals to give as long as the hosting fee is paid, and then putting the winning photos of these players in their center is undoubtedly deceiving most amateur parents. Many parents think it's great to see their children win the gold medal, but they don't know the level is far from it until they really get to the middle school attached to the Conservatory of Music. I have no objection to the children taking part in the competition. It is good for children to get exercise in the competition, reminding you to pay attention to the gap between children and others. Don't just stare at the medals, it's too watery. Only those who take part in the international professional and national piano competitions named XXX, those comprehensive ones called "talent competitions" are meaningless.
Almost all the bosses of large training institutions are about 40 years old. Most of these people are music education majors (because it was quite difficult to enter the Conservatory of Music in those years), and their piano education was very shallow. Coupled with the busy daily affairs of institutions in recent years, most people have given up practicing the piano, which makes them farther and farther away from the piano art and gradually become "businessmen". However, this group of people has rich social experience. He was the founder of the first batch of institutions that made their debut in New China. He had a wide range of social relations, and had an ambiguous relationship with so-called government agencies such as the local youth palace, the Music Association, and the song and dance theater. He wanted an honor such as "excellent social education institution awarded by the people's government". This is a piece of cake. As a result, their center is often dazzling, and all kinds of honors are all over the wall. Extremely confused, parents can't move their legs, and often pay tuition fees for several months in a hurry. They rely on their own fame, and their class fees are often the same as those of university professors: (150-200) Parents are generally abnormal. First, the more expensive the better; second, the older the teacher; third, the more gorgeous the center, the bigger the better. When it comes to Children's Palace and Song and Dance Theatre, you should not think that they are run by the government and can be trusted. In fact, they are all privately contracted at present, and the boss decides what kind of teachers to use.
6.- Don't think they are formal just because they are public schools. In fact 1, the school is full of smoke, puppy love, online games and gambling are serious. Just like the underworld. 2. Most of the teachers in this kind of school get the establishment by connections, mostly dude, and they are all idle when they study in the Conservatory of Music. There is no real talent and learning. Teachers who have nothing to do but have real talents and practical knowledge often lament such a beautiful job, and private art schools dare not even think about it. The office posted a list of students admitted to the Conservatory of Music over the years, all of which were false. The headmaster knows that no one will check it, and it's not illegal. I don't know why so many people believe it.
Seven. -Don't try to learn the electronic piano first and then change it: the piano has its own specific requirements for hand type and fingering. It will be difficult to change it then.
Yang Jun, director of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music, talks about the present situation of piano education in China: An excellent piano teacher needs years of experience and loyalty to this cause, and I think he is a qualified piano teacher. There are so many children learning piano now, and I believe there are a large number of unqualified teachers teaching there. Some even teach children who are misled by others, and some even start teaching without knowing the knowledge points required in the staff, which makes people sad. I think this phenomenon is very serious. Don't think that I bought a piano today, and then I found a teacher to study at random, and then I hope my children will make great achievements. Those children who have not received the wrong guidance teach much better than those who have received the wrong guidance. We should take good care of our children, especially those who learn piano, so that they can have a healthy and correct learning environment.
Eight. Limited by space, time and energy, all kinds of problems cannot be analyzed in detail, and the words are not carefully crafted, just to illustrate the problem. This paper aims to attract the attention of conscientious colleagues, expose the disadvantages of piano education in China and promote healthy fashion. For the sake of their parents and poor piano children, they studied with some teachers for many years, bent on being admitted to the Conservatory of Music, and spent their precious teenage years in the fantasy of passing the exam and winning the gold medal in the competition. They thought everything would be logical, but they failed in the piano exam of the Conservatory of Music. After more than ten years of hard work, all the hope, hard work, sweat and money at home have been wasted. I believe that most parents don't hold the attitude of spending money to let their children learn to play. They all learned to observe. If this child is gifted and makes progress faster than other children, they will make a choice whether to take a professional path or not. But if you choose the wrong teacher, your child's level will stagnate for a long time. You will mistakenly think that children have no talent. How sad, I reminded my parents again: "Don't watch advertisements."