Michael Griffin

Michael Griffin is an educator, keynote speaker, author and pianist.

Griffin's professional development for staff and enrichment lectures for students and parents, examine the factors that impact continuous improvement toward exceptional achievement. Essentially, this includes teacher/student mindsets, metacognition, intrinsic motivation and deliberate practice. Whilst a learning mindset provides the autonomous volition to embark upon this journey, the greatest influence of progress – music and otherwise – is the quality and the quantity of effort, or in skill terminology – practice time. Indeed, Michael’s books Children and Learning – For Parents and Learning Strategies for Musical Success investigate these concepts in detail providing pragmatic solutions for parents, general teachers and music teachers.

Since October 2020 Griffin has designed and made available the following online-on-demand professional learning courses at https://courses.professional-development.com.au/

Growth Mindset, Metacognition, Teaching Musical Skill, Developing Musical Skill, and Learning Excellence.

Michael can be contacted at michael@professional-development.com.au