Learning to learn and monitoring one’s studies
Piano players would benefit from practising metacognitive skills from childhood. Teachers would then not invariably provide pupils with ready solutions and practising instructions, but gradually guide them towards analysing their own achievements and actively participating in providing feedback and in practice planning. Pupils should learn to be aware of and to analyse both music and performances, and to show active participation. When they find out how to perceive and scrutinise their own activities, they gradually become experts on their own playing, exploiting their individual strengths as players and learners. They discover how to observe and interpret their own bodily sensations, which may help to boost their playing skills. They manage to identify their own individuality, to appreciate it and to realise the personal nature of learning. At this point, comparisons with others are no longer relevant: the focus is on individual abilities.
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