There's a saying that goes: Students do not care how much their teacher knows until they know how much their teacher cares. And I do care...

As an experienced full-time educator in the business of nurturing and developing talents, I firmly believe the power of encouragement is...

Some card games are evergreen. The passing of time does little to erode their relevance and compromise the level of fun they shower on...

The raison d'être of any recital or concert is to push budding young talents out of their snugly cocoons, expose them to playing in front...

My student, M, loved "The Entertainer" so much she excitedly told me she memorized the entire piece, all 5 pages of it. I popped up in...

It's not a game familiar to most digital native kids these days. But when I was young, Snakes and Ladders used to be a game I played...

My student E performed Somewhere Out There from the Disney classic film, An American Tail. Revives vibes from the 80s, doesn't it? :)...

Composed by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez in 1919, La Cumparsita is one of the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time. I am going to...

My dear student presenting the eponymous Fur Elise by Luwig van Beethoven.

When M first came to me in 2019, I was told by her mother that she could not keep up with the pace of her curriculum in the music school....

I was tasked during my maternity break to transcribe the song 光陰獨白, an OST from the Chinese TV series You Are my Glory: This was a favor...

The prevalence of the long-drawn Covid-19 pandemic has majorly shifted the nature of learning. The rapid advancement of digital platforms...

Keys and key signatures: A perennial topic my young students struggle to grasp. Yet, it is an unquestionably important concept that...

As a teacher, nothing exudes even more pride than watching my students shine brilliantly. My adult student first came to me as a fresh...

One day, I received a text from a mother stating my student, M, fell and broke her left arm while at the playground. Wrapped in a cast...