by Glen McCarthy | Mar 26, 2015 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Stories, Success Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Briefly describe one or more of your guitar teaching jobs. I taught middle school guitar for 13 years. I taught a 3 level program with 5 classes daily (2 beginning, 2 intermediate and 1 advanced). Each class had 25-40 students. I have also taught beginning guitar at...
by Glen McCarthy | Mar 25, 2015 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Stories, Success Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
1. Describe your experience as a classroom guitar teacher. I have been teaching guitar for 11 years at Lafayette High School. Lafayette offers 2 semester-long classes as part of the school day. I spend the majority of my day teaching classroom guitar and fill out the...
by Glen McCarthy | Mar 10, 2015 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
by Bob Denney: tgwcanada@rogers.com Download the White Paper Performing with other musicians is a great way to share knowledge as well as acquire new skills and repertoire. The guitar is an instrument which is quite approachable and rewarding for those who learn to...
by Glen McCarthy | Feb 25, 2015 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks
I give up…It’s too cold…This winter is never going to end! When you open your door and see a wall of snow at least you have your guitar. If you’re not in Boston, you might be braving the cold and going to school. Here are a bunch of songs to...
by Glen McCarthy | Feb 25, 2015 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Stories, Success Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
1. Tell us about your teaching experience? I started a HS program with two beginning guitar classes of 20 students each and after 30 years retired with 250 students playing guitar in a multi-level program. I now teach at George Mason University and at the Potomac...
by Glen McCarthy | Feb 11, 2015 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Stories, Tips + Tricks
As a guitar class instructor, I think the most important thing I can do is make the learning meaningful for my students. While method books are great, if I taught from page 1 to the back cover as my sole instructional method, I truly feel like I would be committing...
