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Stop staring at your phones – your social skills depend on it

June 15, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Band lessons social skills

Have you ever been around a group of kids, and instead of looking at each other or talking, they’re staring at their phones? It’s as if they don’t know how to communicate anymore. Texting has become their primary form of communication. A recent study by the Pew Research Center confirms this observation. According to the […]

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Stopping the myopia boom – Why outdoor play is crucial for the eye

June 1, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Stopping the myopia boom

My last article was about the importance of outdoor play and the consequences of not getting enough time outdoors. Most kids nowadays spend less than an hour a day outside – the lowest of any generation. Their parents spent about two-and-a-half more hours outside when they were kids. I’ve listed a large number of benefits […]

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Connecting your child to nature is becoming more and more important

May 18, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Connecting your child to nature

I’ve always been a nature lover. My best childhood memories are of roaming the forests with  friends, building forts and tree houses and spending up to 12 hours a day (!) under the open sky. I scuba dived with sharks, skied glaciers and went sky-diving. Nothing gets me more excited than the sense of adventure […]

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Less homework means more time to just be a kid

May 4, 2015 by Hans-Peter

less homework

When a public elementary school in New York City decided to stop giving it’s students homework, it raised a major uproar amongst parents and made headlines in newspapers across the country. In a letter to the parents, its Principal Jane Hsu, explained the school’s decision. She wrote: “the topic of homework has received a lot […]

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Why Movement is the best treatment for ADHD

April 20, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Why movement is the best treatment for ADHD

In recent years, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) comes up in more and more conversations I’m having with the parents of Modern Music School students. Considering the jump in the percentage of young people diagnosed with ADHD, this shouldn’t be too surprising. The Centers for Disease Control reports that it went from 7.8 percent […]

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Modern Music School’s ultimate success formula

April 13, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Modern Music Schools ultimate success formula

Tony Robbins’ strategies for success and happiness have impacted my life in many ways over the years, and have taught me a lot about perseverance, determination and success. Just recently I revisited some of his principles, namely the “The Ultimate Success Formula – 5 keys to getting anything you want in life”, and realized how […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: Modern Music School, music lessons, Tony Robbins, ultimate success formula

Knowing your learning style makes life easier

March 24, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Know your learning styles

We all have different learning styles and we all have different strengths. Last week, during group lessons, we saw a great example of that in action at one of our schools in Germany. Marie – one of our teachers – wanted to introduce a new song to her guitar group. She asked everyone to put […]

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Learning Mindsets (Part 3): Great teachers really matter

February 17, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Great teachers really matter

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams This post is the third and last part of our mini-series about “Learning Mindsets”. We’ve already written about the “growth” and “fixed” mindsets here and about the capacity of our brains to always keep growing (and making us smarter) here. […]

Filed Under: Education, News Tagged With: Gallup, learning, motivation, State of American Schools, teachers

Learning Mindsets (Part 2): Grow your brain like a muscle

February 17, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Grow your brain like a muscle

Last week we began our three-part mini series, “Learning Mindsets,” with Part 1: Why you should never tell your kids they’re smart. In it we gave you a short introduction to two different mindsets, the “growth mindset” and the “fixed mindset”. You can read about them here but what the blog post reveals is that […]

Filed Under: Education, News Tagged With: brain, learning, neuroscience

Learning mindsets (Part 1): Why you should never tell your children they’re smart

February 17, 2015 by Hans-Peter

Fixed or growth

If we asked you to name some of history’s greatest geniuses, Mozart would probably come to mind. He might as well be the poster-child for the idea of a “natural born” genius – but the latest research shows that there’s no such thing as a “natural” genius at all. Carol Dweck, psychologist at Stanford University […]

Filed Under: Education, News Tagged With: Carol Dweck, fixed mindset, Growth mindset

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February 17, 2015 By Hans-Peter

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Learning Mindsets (Part 2): Grow your brain like a muscle

February 17, 2015 By Hans-Peter

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Learning mindsets (Part 1): Why you should never tell your children they’re smart

February 17, 2015 By Hans-Peter

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My goal is to bring happiness to you and your child's life. In times where anxiety and stress levels among children and youth are at an all-time high, I make it my mission to create a space for children to grow up as happy, emotionally-resilient and creative individuals. With real connections, friendship and play being replaced by television, tablets and iPhones, I provide children with opportunities to connect with peers, to form real friendships and to grow up as socially competent, responsible human beings.

About Modern Music School

Hans-Peter Becker, once a professional drummer, now educator, author and entrepreneur, made it his mission to connect the world with music – and he’s succeeding. He is the founder of the Modern Music School, which is one of the largest music schools in the world. In its more than 80 international branches, Modern Music School has taught more than 100,000 musicians in Germany, US and Greece since 1987.

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