You can join the growing body of music teachers sufficiently knowledgeable in the physiological and neurophysiological basis of music training to effectively convey crucial information to their students and colleagues. Musicians who take the Andover Educators course may find that they themselves are interested in becoming Certified Teachers. Experience has shown that the best teachers of this vital information for musicians are themselves musicians. Music teachers can find their lives enriched by being part of a solution to a significant problem in the musical community.

Andover Educators Certified Teachers are trained by Amy Likar, the President of Andover Educators. During training they study the course texts, observe the course being given by Certified Teachers, take private and group training sessions with Amy Likar, develop materials for their own courses, participate in discussion and development of What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body on-line, and develop their own playing with the principles of Body Mapping and other somatic disciplines.

The mission of Andover Educators is to put music training on a secure somatic foundation so that all musicians, amateur and professional alike, may play free of pain and injury and with increasing enjoyment and skill. To this end it is the mission of Andover Educators to create a network of Certified Teachers actively teaching the course What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body. The selection process for trainees is rigorous. We accept only those applicants we are sure we can train to the high standard set by current Andover Educators.

Course quality is maintained by careful initial selection of teachers, thorough training, course evaluations, ongoing communication, supervision, and review. Teachers are trained by Amy Likar and themselves. The content of the training is preparation for giving the course, What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body, and nothing else. The training is in no way Alexander Technique teacher training, even though Amy Likar and several other Andover Educators are certified Alexander Technique teachers. Trainees are judged to be ready for certification solely on the basis of their verbal skill in conveying information, the integrity of their visual aids, and their ability to demonstrate with their own instruments what is being taught.

Andover Educators have a new source of income. They have also have new tools for teaching their private students and for effectiveness in their classroom teaching. Many are a valued resource for their colleagues who consult the Andover Educators about their injured or at-risk students. Schools of music are finding the presence of courses in injury prevention and efficient movement a recruiting asset and protection against the lawsuits students are beginning to bring against teachers and schools of music for failing to give the information to prevent injury.

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