Thursday, January 19, 2023

December in Review & the Autistic Wonderkid Piano player ! Isn't grand ?


 

Jude Kofie, Colorado, US

credits: Google Images


Not every day do you come downstairs and discover that your son is a gifted pianist, right?!

Jude Kofie, 11, surprised his father one morning by playing the keyboards as if he had taken lessons for years.

"I was here watching the news when I heard him play something," 

Isaiah Kofie, Jude's father 




Jude Kofie &  Bill Magnusson
credits: CBS News

Jude Kofie, an 11-year-old autistic child from Aurora, Colorado (US) with a natural affinity for music, couldn’t believe it when a grand piano was delivered to his house. Wow! Neither could his parents.

Jude demonstrated a remarkable talent no one anticipated when he discovered an old keyboard and, without any lessons, began playing.



The piano was a gift from Bill Magnusson, a piano tuner who had seen a report about Jude on the news. 

"He’s Mozart level," Magnusson said.




Jude Kofie playing the piano at home
credits: CBS News

After being moved by Jude’s story, Magnusson said he thought to himself, "What resources are left over to help this special little soul?"

He then used his father’s inheritance to purchase the piano and had it delivered to the family’s home. He also promised to tune the piano once a month for the rest of his life and pay for Jude to get professional lessons. I'm so touched! What a kind man!

"All for free - who does that?" - the boy’s father said. And he add that the family is "super thankful."

"We’re family now," - added Magnusson.

Watch the heartwarming story below.




Education: 

Music has the potential to achieve social and psychological transformation of children and young people. Their sensibility will be accurate. 

As I often wrote speaking about music, there some gifted kids we can discover in our classes. We must never waste such an opportunity as teachers! Captivating the major interests of our students to Music.

See? If you have a little student as talented as Jude Kofie, pay attention! Not every day we can have a Bill Magnusson near him. But perhaps talking with his/her parents about the gift of their son/daughter have to music. they could afford a musical education to their kids. There you have the chance to guide a little bit a new kid to join the next generation of good musicians.


And now, here my posts of December...


I couldn't publish so many times as I would like. But here you have a few ideas about to important themes: Literature and Science.
Hopping you would like to review these publications of December and will continue to follow me on this blog of mine or on my page on Facebook.

Wherever you are I hope that you're having a safe time at school teaching in-person lessons. I hope you don't need anymore to teach distance learning. After tremendous floods on the block, the sun will be back soon!

Take care. Enjoy your life and profession. We are teachers for better and for worst. Students need teachers and now they do love school time after two years on remote learning and distance learning.

I'll be back posting the normal roundup soon.

G-Souto

18.01.2023

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