Visual Aids

Students Learn Best When They Are Given the Chance to SEE, HEAR, and DO (Try) Each New Concept!

Visual aids are a great way to visually emphasize and reinforce lesson materials.

Using the Visual Aids

  1. Use visual aids as a teaching guide in individual lessons.
  2. Give students copies to keep in their piano binders, for reminders of what was taught during the lesson.
  3. Provide materials for each student to read at a group lesson.
  4. Create packets and handouts for teacher conferences, conventions and presentations.

Is Your Student Ready For a Concept?

If your student is not ready for all of the concepts in a visual aid or handout, you can still use the visual aid. Just introduce what he/she is ready to learn; save the other elements for later. If you have given your student a copy to keep in his/her notebook, as a handout, then the information will already be handy when he/she is ready for the next concept.

Additional Aids

Check out our Piano Discoveries Printables & Worksheets! Explore additional ideas for teaching concepts in a fun and exciting way with Games.

Provide students with a fun and exciting way to practice elementary theory terms.  This crossword puzzle includes 10 early elementary music terms and definitions — tie, whole note, repeat sign, quarter note, half note, bar line, slur, double bar line, measure and staff.