Adventures of A Music Educator cherthemusic

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Music learning is mainly provided as an enrichment programme in Malaysia. What is known as music academies or schools elsewhere is known as music centres here in Malaysia. Since the pandemic, the music teaching business is badly impacted and the industry is going through some growing pains as business owners accept, adapt and adopt new ways of running the business.  In this video podcast episode, I'm joined by Amanda Ong, the owner of Fusion Music Studio Puchong and a member of my online learning community, Music Teacher Meets Technology. Amanda shared some of the progressive decisions she made for her studio. Tune in to find out more!  

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Guest intro and education background
04:45 How Amanda started her own music centre
10:15 The norms of managing the business (i.e. staffing)
12:32 A brief explanation of the Malaysian music teaching business
13:20 The integrity of music teachers and how Amanda overcome staffing problems  
14:50 The service offered to parents and students
17:55 Other services provided by music centres
19:40 Teachers as entrepreneurs
21:40 Teacher branding
24:56 How Amanda started to see the importance of branding
26:26 Cher's aspiration & niche in her own career
29:05 Don't focus on competition and just move forward
31:31 Amanda's success stories and trusting staff
33:47 The initial difficulties
36:27 Shared experience but different coping mechanisms
39:52 How Amanda get her teachers to ease into the new norm
42:40 Training tech to senior teachers
43:55 Zoom fatigue
44:34 Handling large class size online, class management and handling lesson objectives
48:10 Preparing materials for online lessons
49:30 Teaching older students
52:44 Feedback from teachers, parents & students
54:30 Online toddler music class
56:12 Amanda's game plan -"Start local, go global" and advertising the school's programme
59:12 Social media marketing
01:01:26 Mindset reset
01:02:47 Amanda's hope for the industry
01:07:01 How you can contact Amanda [Check podcast show notes]

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Amanda Ong, Fusion Music Studio Puchong  


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The pandemic has affected education worldwide and scholarly pursuits in music research is not left out. In this video podcast, I'm joined by Lee Voon Foong to discuss about some of the challenges and changes in the field of music research during this trying times. Is going virtual the only research method now? We also discussed a little about how the pandemic has affected music teaching and the learning attitudes of music teachers.   

Timestamps 

00:00 Host intro
00:35 Guest intro
07:55 Topic intro
09:07 Brief overview of Voon Foong's research
11:20 Type of research he is doing
14:14 Finding his research participants
15:19 Getting information from music teachers
17:28 Challenges during the pandemic
21:15 The new norm of research
24:00 Using survey in research
25:34 Is the pandemic discouraging qualitative research?  
27:46 Significance of research observation
29:51 Challenges of experimental research
31:07 Opportunities in research now
32:03 Challenges in virtual learning - Latency, teacher experience in virtual class
33:39 Self-efficacy of music teachers in teaching and learning
37:50 The attitudes of music teachers towards the pandemic
40:05 The difficulties of teaching wind instruments virtually and how it affects audio suppression in video calls
42:56 Closing thoughts by Voon Foong
46:25 Phd????
47:55 Connecting with Voon Foong

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This episode is about my journey on Youtube Algorithm, SETO tools and developing video editing skills. I shared about my experience revamping my Youtube channel and how I learned some tricks from SEO tools.

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Here is a solution I shared for teaching drawing in Google Meets. 

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An update and continuation of my journey in differentiating in the virtual music classroom. In this episode, I share how video tutorials can be helpful during a live virtual lesson. 

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