A nice comment on my coursera's assignment

I have received a comment to my week's assignment, which I would like to keep.
2 days ago

Dear Raisa,
I'm happy that you too received a lot through this week's lesson. Being a music teacher, I know it would be really hard not to label students as being "gifted" or "non-gifted". I wish you well in your journey in being a better teacher, and being an expert musician. You can do it!  Kenan Sadhu

Also, I would like to think about a few things.

Music is a particular way of thinking. It integrates knowledge, skills, imagination, emotions. Yes, I can distinguish separate skills in that area, but the goal is to "develop a musicianship".

Every piece of information is taken from real musical composition. I would like to create my own bank of "topic-examples" that would be arranged by different levels of understanding and different styles of music.

Every piece of information should stimulate student's imagination. What kind of tasks would do that? Another folder would be "topic-creative tasks".

Every piece of information must transform into actual musical skill: distinguish triads by ear, understand a melodic movement by ear, etc. "Topic-practices".

How can I find the balance between these types of practice? What is a musicianship? Why could one say "this student is musical, but this is not"? What is the difference between them? These are the major issues. If I happen to teach music teaching I will include these questions as a reflection tasks to my students :). As for now, it would be a happiness to find or create a teachers' community to discuss different approaches, scientific discoveries in education, play difficult classroom situations in a role-play game, ask and give a meaningful feedback.