[CAUT] Professional Development

[Bdshull at aol.com]

These were my wildly unsuccessful RFAs relating to piano technology  
learning and study for the 2009 midyear board....FWIW   :)   It remains my belief 
that the more we can do for ALL paths to RPT the  better, and these were my 
first steps.  Obviously they're short on  resources ($ etc).  I should have 
consulted with  Richard..... 
 
I look forward to a master's RFA....if he is willing to  share.  
 
Bill
 
Bill Shull, RPT, M.Mus.
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/15/2010 10:05:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
wardprobst at wardprobst.com writes:

Richard  and Ed,

I'll be glad to submit an RFA for this subject but the deadline  is Monday,
10/17/10. I look forward to the discussion this weekend and will  
incorporate
what I can into the RFA. 

Best,
Dale  Probst
IPP


-----Original Message-----
From:  caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf  Of
rwest1 at unl.edu
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:15 AM
To: Ed  Sutton; College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Professional  Development


Ed:

I like your ideas.  Since my knee jerk  reaction to "revolutionary"  
ideas is ,"Nice idea but how you gonna  implement it all,"  my answer  
to your ideas would be to invite  your RVP to submit a "Request for  
Action" form to the board. They  could create an education task force  
to research current  and  past educational methods and materials with  
the intent to not only  determine the feasibility of what you're  
suggesting, but submit  concrete proposals to improve PTG's  
educational offerings.  I  would expect the task force to contact  
residence schools,  correspondence schools, chapter and regional  
education people and  CAUT guys.  I would expect the make up of the  
task force to  include all relevant interested parties, as well as  
Kathy Maxwell of  the home office who has been involved in this kind  
of thing from day  one of her PTG employment.

Richard West


On May 15, 2010, at  10:25 AM, ed440 at mindspring.com wrote:

> Richard-
>
> As  I have watched the "endorsement debate" over two years, I have
> felt  that perhaps we would do better to develop a master syllabus  
>  covering all skills and knowledge applicable to piano technology.   
> This master syllabus would be more than any one person would   
> master, but would supply a framework within which each person  could  
> structure a lifelong learning plan.
>
> The  syllabus could reach out to include and benefit from topics
> that are  taught elsewhere (such as wood technology, acoustics,  
> music  theory and history of furniture decoration, to suggest a  
> few).  PTG would not have to develop texts or classes on these  
> topics.  PTG would then be able to recognize the topics we can best  
>  address, and develop a long range plan to develop PTG material  
>  where the need is greatest. We could gradually experiment to find   
> ways of learning this material that are appropriate to the 21st   
> century, and that let us take the role of maintaining and  advancing  
> our craft.
>
> Meanwhile, each member who  cared to learn could be creating his or
> her personal curriculum. As  this project proceeded, it could give  
> new meaning to the RPT  credential, as I hope we would create a  
> class of lifelong  learners within our profession. If the testing  
> was kept  meaningful and manageable, each RPT would be building an  
>  individual class resume, which might be of assistance in the  
>  development of "specialties" or "endorsements."
>
> The Grand  Regulation text which you have been developing would be
> one part of  this project. I have some thoughts about how this text  
> could be  used to create a new kind of class, a sort of RPT seminar  
> in  grand regulation. I also have hopes that other texts (perhaps  
>  Capleton's Tuning book, for one) could be used in a seminar form,   
> perhaps in an on-line seminar, or an on-line discussion that   
> follows up a face-to-face seminar. But these ideas are secondary  to  
> the idea of developing a master syllabus from which they  would emerge.
>
> Ed  Sutton
>
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