9:00AM Social time

9:30AM Business

10:00 Presentation by Sarah Silvia

Five Best Teaching Practices to Re-Frame Challenges

Help your students to manage visual overwhelm, prepare a mental map for performance success, as well as strategies for communication & recall. Improve information retention so your teaching yields more consistent results in less teaching time.

Zoom link will be emailed to all current SMTA members. If you have any problems getting into the meeting, email smtaoffice@gmail.com.

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About our Presenter:

At a time when more students are diagnosed with learning challenges than ever before, we can all improve as teachers when we lean into the growth mindset. Sarah Silvia’s teaching focuses on communication, connection, and relationship in her studio.  She’s taught students ages 3 to 72, often with an assortment of exceptionalities. Her studio includes English language learners as well as others who experience focus & energy issues ranging from ADHD, to challenges with executive function, or developmental delays. Many of her students benefit from extra support in their musical studies with more explicit directions in practice assignments. Silvia believes in her students, and she sees them as whole and complete. 

Silvia holds a Master of Music degree from University of Washington and has taught at the Bainbridge Island Music Guild and John Stanford International School. Her article on beginning to teach online was published in The Clarion in April 2020, she has presented on teaching rhythm online at the Edmonds MTA, as well as an Imagination Masterclass. 

 She looks for the divine spark in each person she teaches and sets them up to surpass expectations.