{"id":1418,"date":"2020-12-04T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/?page_id=1418"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:59:31","slug":"2020-patti-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/teacher-of-the-year\/2020-patti-bennett","title":{"rendered":"2020: Patti Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-1012x1024.png\" alt=\"Patti Bennett\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" width=\"350\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-1012x1024.png 1012w, http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-297x300.png 297w, http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-768x777.png 768w, http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min-1519x1536.png 1519w, http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patti-Bennett-2020-min.png 1913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to our 2020 Teacher of the Year, Patti Bennett!&nbsp; Patti has been teaching for over 35 years, and her students excel in many areas.&nbsp; They regularly win in GCMTA Music Day, and they play in GCMTA Performance Day.&nbsp; They appear in Master Classes and win at other competitions, including hymn-playing events.&nbsp; Patti has been a Piano Guild adjudicator for many years, and is listed on their Hall of Fame for her numerous national winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aurelia Campbell, Past President of GMTA, wrote a letter of recommendation on behalf of Patti.&nbsp; She told us that \u201cPatti has furnished me transportation to the GMTA Conferences for many years, and we have been roommates during our stay at these events.&nbsp; She is always excited about attending the various sessions and looking for ways to keep updated\u2026Patti is a qualified teacher and shows excellence in all of her endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patti has many outstanding teaching ideas, and she is constantly challenging her students to achieve more.&nbsp; She has had many students go on to major in music, and one notable example is Timothy Jones, a blind student whom she taught for many years.&nbsp; He earned his undergrad degree in Organ Performance from Mercer University in 2019, and is now pursuing a Master\u2019s Degree in Piano Pedagogy at Georgia State University.&nbsp; Patti\u2019s dedication and patience with her disabled student nurtured his own lifelong love for music and allowed him to realize that he could have a career in music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our 2020 Teacher of the Year, Patti Bennett!&nbsp; Patti has been teaching for over 35 years, and her students excel in many areas.&nbsp; They regularly win in GCMTA Music Day, and they play in GCMTA Performance Day.&nbsp; They appear in Master Classes and win at other competitions, including hymn-playing events.&nbsp; Patti has been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/teacher-of-the-year\/2020-patti-bennett\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2020: Patti Bennett<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions\/1421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}