Susan Paradis
Teaching Resources for Piano Teachers
Piano music by Susan Paradis
Susan R. Paradis is a piano teacher and music educator who creates original piano teaching material, games, and piano music for her students and would like to share her teaching materials with other teachers. Susan's teaching material is available in PDF format that you can download for free.
To print her worksheets and games, go to Teaching Materials. Scroll down to what you want and click "preview" to print. To print original piano music and arrangements of familiar tunes, including pre-reading arrangements, go to Music and scroll down to see what is available.
If you are having trouble sorting through all the material here, visit Susan's blog where there is a search engine and a list of different categories to check out. There are things on the blog that are not here and new are items posted often.
Lessons
Susan Paradis offers 45 minute private piano lessons to students of all ages. At the present time there are limited openings before 3:00 for adults or home schooled children. There is a waiting list for times after school. If you are interested in lessons, please contact her.
About Susan
Susan Paradis is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Master of Music Education, where she studied Kodaly methods with the noted Kodaly educator Arpad Daraz. She was awarded membership in the Pi Kappa Lambda honorary music fraternity and is a longtime member of the Texas Music Teacher Association and the Music Teachers National Association. She has many years experience as a teacher in public and private schools, music therapy, voice, and private piano lessons. Mrs. Paradis has worked with students of all achievement levels and learning styles including the intellectually gifted and talented. She has taught children of all social and ethnic backgrounds. Her experience in the field of music education and piano pedagogy has led to her distinctive curriculum, which recognizes that all children deserve an individualized approach to piano instruction.
Contact Susan
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I love to hear from other teachers! Please tell me what state or country you're from so I can add you to my map.
You can visit my blog and make comments about my teaching resources.
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Recent Updates
My blog has more directions to the activities posted on this web site.
Fourth Of July -prereading for beginners
Photo bookmarks for summer camp
Fourth of July Composing Activity
Tiny bass and treble staff labels to write scales and intervals for your students
Get your Staff Paper for young student composers here.
By popular request, Two Octave Keyboard Labels.
One Minute Club cards
Keyboard Labels-check my blog for instructions.
Notes in the Fast Lane Levels 9-12
Notes in the Fast Lane, levels 5-8.
Notes In the Fast Lane, a speed reading activity sheet.
Inverting Triads, another in my series of humorous teaching posters.
Measure Mania-a game for older students to reinforce dotted eighth notes. Directions and game board are on my blog.
Two Octave Floor Keyboard
Circle of Fifths poster in color and a Circle of Fifths worksheet in black and white
Links
- Texas Music Teachers Association
- Layton Music - D'Nets site is a great teacher resource by a very creative teacher.
- Wendy's Piano Studio a wonderful composer
- My students download NotePad and compose their own music.
- Piano Adventures