Which type of piano is best for beginners?

Our pick. Casio CDP-S150. The best budget digital piano for beginners. The CDP-S150 is a compact, 88-key digital piano that sounds excellent and is easy to play. ... Runner-up. Roland FP-10. Great, if you can find it. ... Budget pick. Alesis Recital Pro. A less expensive alternative.

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My 38-year musical journey began the first time I sat down at my cousin’s piano. My parents were able to foster this newfound passion by picking up a cheap, upright acoustic piano for me to practice on, but due to its age it had issues that made playing challenging. This is why Wirecutter recommends a good, affordable digital piano for beginners. If you’re looking to begin your (or your child’s) journey with music, the Casio CDP-S150 is an excellent choice because it suitably replicates the feel of an acoustic piano but costs less and requires less space. The Casio CDP-S150 is one of the slimmest keyboards available under $500, yet it still offers an accurate piano feel (aka its key action, which we’ll discuss below), as well as excellent sounds and useful student/teacher features such as a duet mode for playing a lesson together. This piano lacks a digital readout, but adjusting sounds and other functions is still easy enough. The only real drawback is the lack of Bluetooth for connecting it wirelessly to a mobile device to use Casio’s Chordana Play app, which provides access to additional controls and features; you have to use the less convenient USB Type-B port for a wired connection instead. Some of our testers (including me) slightly preferred the Roland FP-10 over the Casio CDP-S150 for its more authentic piano feel and accurate sounds. It has Bluetooth to wirelessly connect to a mobile device running Roland’s Piano Partner 2 app, but its physical controls are far less intuitive than the CDP-S150’s. Still, the FP-10 would likely be our top pick if not for the fact that its availability is too inconsistent. If you can find one, pick it up. Otherwise the Casio is a top-notch choice. Although the Alesis Recital Pro doesn’t sound quite as good or play quite as well as our other picks, it’s clearly the standout value. It’s typically about $100 less expensive than the Casio CDP-S150, and that savings is somewhat evident in the quality of the sounds that this piano produces. But thanks to its intuitive button design and LCD readout, this keyboard is the easiest to use of our picks. It doesn’t come with a sustain pedal, so it requires an extra purchase of about $20 to make it fully functional.

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What are the 5 pedagogies?

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence The five pedagogy standards are joint productive activity (JPA), language and literacy development (LD), meaning making (MM), complex thinking (CT), and instructional conversation (IC).

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This paper presents five standards for pedagogy that are applicable across grade levels, student populations, and content areas. The five pedagogy standards are joint productive activity (JPA), language and literacy development (LD), meaning making (MM), complex thinking (CT), and instructional conversation (IC). These standards emerge from principles of practice that have proven successful with majority and minority at-risk students in a variety of teaching and learning settings over several decades. Indicators are introduced for each standard, revealing action components of the standards and their functions in teaching and learning. Illustrations and examples reflecting the standards and their indicators across a broad range of classroom settings are presented to support a claim of universality for such standards in K-12 majority and minority at-risk students' classrooms. The purpose is to urge standards-based reform to reflect its own recommendation that pedagogy occupy a central place in accomplish-ing all student learning.

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