Playing The Piano Teacher

On 25th October 1969, a girl named Margaret Chua was born. Her parents possess a traditional mindset, in which they believed that girls should stay at home to take care of the family. Little did Margaret know that her parents’ mindset will drive her to go to work and eventually become a knowledgeable and wise piano teacher, with many students sprawled all over the map of Singapore, who have all benefited from her teaching.
Since she was 7 or 8 years old, Margaret had been fascinated by and wanted to learn how to play the piano. Turned down many times by her parents, the idea of playing the piano slowly died down. The idea rekindled in her mind when she heard her 4 new neighbours play the piano everyday at 7.30 a.m. without fail. The exposure

The job gradually became more demanding, thus she quit after 4 years. Unemployment was not a difficulty as by the time she quit the auditing job, she had accumulated a number of piano students. With this, she embarked on a new journey of being a piano teacher at the age of 25 years old. When Margaret began to teach, she had already acquired the Licentiate of Trinity College London, hence she was able to accumulate many students easily. She has no qualms giving her students extra lessons nearing their piano examinations. One can imagine the satisfied smile hanging on her face when all of her students scored a Distinction in all their piano examinations. That was when Margaret was aware that she had finally chosen the correct job for

Simply teaching with knowledge you had absorbed from your own piano teacher, without any regard for learning more and different ways to teach, is not enough to satisfy students’ thirst for more knowledge and to bring the students up to a more advanced level. Without regular advancement, Margaret’s teaching will not benefit her students much. She was glad to realise this problem quickly as she could solve this issue early. To raise her standard of teaching and refine her piano skills, Margaret signed up for regular teachers’ training at ABRSM that is over the course of six months, even until now. She was awarded the Certificate of Teaching by ABRSM. The recognition of this important point caused Margaret to become more disciplined and alert to her students’ queries. Till now, Margaret attends all the teachers’ training that she can, and even seminars overseas. She would also take down notes from seminars so that she can educate her students on the correct techniques used to play their