Supercharge Your
Grade 1 Students Workshop
Teaching Grade 1 Students with The Curious Piano Teachers
Sharon Mark-Teggart & Sally Cathcart
Is your student ready for
Grade 1 exams?
In this workshop, you will be guided every step of the way,
from assessing if your student is ready for Grade 1 exams, preparing the groundwork,
integrating and connecting aural work and sight reading, the practice triangle,
and ways of teaching the pieces and technical work.
Plus, learn some tips on how to make the exam day the most positive experience possible.
Are you curious about Grade 1 Exams?
Join Tim, Sally and Sharon as they guide teachers
with students looking to start working towards
Grade 1 exams.
Monday, March 13 – 4 PM Eastern and 8 PM London
Tuesday, March 14 – 7 AM Melbourne
Supercharge Your
Grade 1 Students Workshop
Teaching Grade 1 Students with The Curious Piano Teachers
Sharon Mark-Teggart & Sally Cathcart
If you can’t make it to the live session, we’ll share a limited time replay.
Workshop Host
Tim Topham
Your webinar host and founder of TopMusicCo, the world’s biggest online community of independent music teachers. Tim has 20+ years’ classroom and music teaching experience including 10 years of music entrepreneurship. He’s an internationally-recognised speaker, author, podcaster and blogger and holds degrees including an MBA, BMus and DipEd.
Presenter
Sharon Mark-Teggart
Sharon Mark-Teggart is the Co-Founder and Director of The Curious Piano Teachers, an organisation that provides a global community of piano teachers with resources that enable them to learn as much as they teach. Sharon has over 20 years experience as a reflective practitioner in music education. She is well-known worldwide as a highly experienced piano pedagogue, contributing extensively to literature and resources. A visionary entrepreneur in the world of music education, Sharon founded evoco in 2012 (Northern Ireland’s Music Education Organisation, specialising in piano teacher training) before pioneering the concept of professional development for piano teachers via an online membership site with her Co-Founding partner at The Curious Piano Teachers, Dr Sally Cathcart.
Presenter
Sally Cathcart
Sally Cathcart, Ph.D. and Churchill Fellow, has many years of teaching experience both as a piano teacher and as a classroom music teacher. She runs a small teaching studio and teaching the piano continues to be her greatest joy. She is co-founder and Director of The Curious Piano Teachers. Sally is a trained Kodály practitioner and was Director of Musicianship for The Voices Foundation from 2013-2022. She is a Principal Tutor on the Piano Teachers’ Course (UK) and is a piano syllabus consultant for the UK examining board ABRSM. She has written a series of musicianship books for young pianists, ‘ready to play’, which have recently been published by Alfred UK. In collaboration with Dr Christopher Fisher Sally is currently working as co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Piano Pedagogy.