In LAGA Teach, we help you develop an organized, meaningful and personal approach to teaching the guitar. We begin by organizing your musical skills and knowledge, then move on to helping you convey the material to your students in a way they can understand easily. We offer support every step of the way, both by e-mail (for all LAGA Teach students) and live, one-on-one video conferencing (for students taking our live online course).

LAGA Teach has three phases:

Phase One: Minimum Proficiencies

This first phase will help you review and perfect your basic skills as a guitarist. You may need to spend a little time with material with which you might be unfamiliar. For example, if you are primarily a pop/ rock player, you may need to familiarize yourself more with fingerstyle and at reading music. If you are primarily a classical player, you may need to spend more time with the plectrum (pick). We prepare you to be marketable to both beginning and intermediate students of any style. We will address more advanced teaching concepts pertaining to your primary playing style through private consultation. The areas of proficiency are basic technique, fingerboard theory, reading, accompaniment, and specific techniques.

Phase Two: Sequencing and Materials

In this phase, you will review our approach to teaching classical, Flamenco, pop, fingerboard theory, and children's lessons. We will work privately with you to help you design a personalized course of study for your students. We have divided this phase into five stages:

Stage One: Learn about basic skill set sequencing (when and how to introduce new concepts).

Stage Two: Create Supplementary Material.

Stage Three: Create Lesson Plans.

Stage Four: Organize a twenty-week course for your classical, Flamenco, pop and children's guitar students.

Stage Five: Formulate Assessment Strategies.

Phase Three: Learning Theory

In this phase, you will explore new research in the field of learning theory. This includes studying the various learning styles, brain-based learning, teaching students to practice efficiently, note reading, improvisation and body-based learning.