My course involves teaching music theory and songwriting to mainly inexperienced beginners. A very challenging prospect indeed! I start with very basic theory lessons, on the music staff dry erase board and from the piano. Most of my students have no previous music experience, so it's a pretty level playing field for all of them. The very nature of my lectures is visual and auditory, not much in-or-out-of-class reading assignments given. Those students not comfortable learning in these 2 styles find it more difficult to absorb the new material, not to mention the general difficulty of learning music as an adult anyway! Any ideas as to how to reach the written word and kinesthetic learners? I do encourage my students to acquire a basic piano keyboard and learn some basic piano skills, but very few do..