Group Instruction: Students enrolled in the first and second year PLP classes will enjoy a variety of musical experiences while learning the fundamentals of music. Emphasis is placed on reading, rhythm, ear training, and creative work through group activities and directed play games. Instruction includes a thirty-minute group class and a thirty-minute private lesson once a week. The first-year class meets on Mondays from 4:00-5:00. Enrollment in the first-year class is offered each fall to children entering the first and second grade.
The piano pedagogy program at Baylor University offers a comprehensive degree program with many opportunities for valuable teaching experiences. Undergraduate piano pedagogy classes prepare future teachers to work with all levels and ages of students in both group and private settings. Through piano pedagogy courses and internships in piano pedagogy, our students participate in the teaching of the Piano Laboratory Program, in which elementary-age students from the community obtain their first piano lessons.
Our alumni have chosen such diverse career paths as running their own independent studios, teaching in large music schools or elementary schools, and teaching at the college level. Baylor pedagogy students have gone on to obtain doctorates from such prestigious universities as the University of Oklahoma, the University of Texas at Austin, Cambridge University, Texas Tech University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.