Coda

Abstract

This final chapter invites music teachers to fuel the flourishing of independent and authentic student musicians. This means being attentive to three important dynamics: helping students to recognize and value their achievements, building on students’ reflective feedback, and purposefully uncovering and empowering what genuinely motivates students to learn. Additionally, teachers’ capacity for fuelling authentic student musicians may be influenced by deeply understanding their own formative pedagogic experiences, by critically examining their ongoing role in teaching, and by teachers exercising the spectrum of their own potential and imagination. Finally, Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy calls teachers to consider the legacy of music lessons and what they want their students and themselves to take away from the weeks, months, and years of musical explorations still to come.