Brain smart teaching is essential - but what if you work with a lot of different kinds of brains? In this excerpt, we’ll hear about how Charlee Eaves, profession and EIMI practitioner, uses her EIMI brain knowledge to help different ages of students.
Shame vs joy. What is the best way to teach? What does it look like for someone to carry around musical shame or trauma? How can we teach without causing damage?
How does Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction and better parent education impact the way that parents value what you do?
What is musical shame? How does it impact our society?
What is your life like after you’ve studies Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction with the I Am Academy?
Are there any benefits to learning this new way of teaching? What work can you expect to do - you, and your students?
In this excerpt, we’ll look into one person’s experience and outcomes from coaching with the I Am Academy.
Let’s see how Charlee heard about Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction, and how her love of the method developed.
When you learn Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction, you become a different kind of teacher. What kind of differences do coaching clients notice? What happens to your student retention when you are EIMI trained?
Let’s listen in and hear what one coaching client says.
Reprioritizing. Retraining on brain mechanics. Reaffirming your deepest instincts on how to care for students well. Let’s see what life looks like for an EIMI trained teacher.
Is it difficult to learn the brain mechanics that the I Am Academy focuses on? Does applying this knowledge have any impact on your teaching, your students, or their families (and how fast do you see these impacts)?
In EIMI, we start by caring about optimizing the emotional state of the student - and teaching them to care about it too.
But does this create worse musicians? Do we lose out on the quality of our players when we spend this kind of time in the midbrain?
What is it like working with an I Am Academy coach?
How do people who work with the I Am Academy feel after they’ve done their work? Let’s listen in to two coaching clients and hear what they think.
Are you getting everything you’re hoping for out of your teacher - for your students, for their families, for your school, and for yourself? Let’s take a look at what coaching with the I Am Academy can do for you.
How do parents like Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction?
A review on the process of learning Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction (EIMI).
Cultural differences can create disagreements. Sometimes people (especially old-school teachers) are resistant to the ideas of EIMI. Let’s look at what that can look like.
Rote learning is a terrible thing… right? Well, as it turns out, it is and it isn’t, depending on what part the brain you’re working with.
Learn more in this interview excerpt with Charlee Eaves, professor and I Am Academy coaching client.
Charlee Eaves, professor and I Am Academy coaching client, gives her final thoughts on Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction
Hear from classroom teachers about what their lived experience with an Emotionally Intelligent Music program.
Human brains were made to work best by making music, every day. Emotionally Intelligent Music programs make music happen more often.
Music is no respecter of persons. Think about the people that you would never otherwise have met, if it hadn’t been for music.
Sometimes good things are so good, their benefits get lost in the noise. Music is one of those good things.
What does a classroom teacher think of a program that is built on Emotionally Intelligent Music Instruction?
Veteran Montessori guide Heather Hiatt talks about a childhood full of music.
When it comes down to it, music teachers don’t need to work that hard to convince people about the deeper purposes and value of music. It’s right there in our bones.
What can we, in the West, learn about joy and mental healthy by engaging in musical exchange with other cultures?
Emotionally Intelligent Music programs can create bridges across classrooms and ages.
Veteran Montessori educator Tami O’Kinsella describes her musical life story.
FULL VIDEO! Enjoy this professional development session done at the 2023 NAfME Northwest Conference
FULL Video! Enjoy this session given at the 2023 NAfME Northwest Conference.
What is practice?
Come with us to a lesson and consider this big question.
Taken at Mirema School in Roysambu, Nairobi, Kenya. April 2023