Coaches

I’ve been teaching Simply Music for almost a year, and I now have students entering level 4.  My studio space is small so my class size ranges from one to three students. Throughout the past year I have been having increasing difficultly with time management…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• accompaniment, arrangements, curriculum order list, Laurie Richards, lessons, life coach, method coach, Playlist, time management

I  keep getting students who are not “happy” with their group (for various unimportant reasons) and want to either move group or have private one-on-one lessons instead. I prefer to teach mainly in groups but find myself “bending over backwards” for students only to have…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• claiming territory, coachabilty, coaching, group lessons, private lesson, Robin Keehn, selective coaching, shared lessons

I received a call about teaching Simply Music at a school that’s 45 minutes away, and had a few questions if this would even work. Two of the students moved here from Australia and loved learning piano through the Simply Music method. Their traditional piano teacher is no…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• coach, fees, long term relationships, relationship conversation, Robin Keehn, scheduling, Skype, Workshops

I am wondering how any of you that teach in groups place students. I have 2 or more 6 year olds starting and two 7 year olds starting. Would you recommend placing them together or by age? I have found the first few lessons the…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• age, age groups, combining different ages, group lessons scheduling, Laurie Richards, Neil Moore, six year olds, working away from the piano

I have a mom and her 12 yr old son sharing a lesson.  I notice she progresses quite a bit slower than him. They are up to Fur Elise in Level 1.  It took her quite awhile to get Family Dreams relatively smooth and Bishop…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• accompaniment, arrangements, Family Dreams, group lessons, prior experience, shared lessons

What age do people usually start students in their studios?  I was thinking 7 or 8 am I thinking traditionally? As a Kindermusik Teacher I encouraged children to finish the Young Child program or similar music immersion program before beginning piano lessons. Our experience with Traditional Piano…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• Dreams Come True, Kindergarten, Kindermusik, simply music, starting age, young children

I’m just opening my studio–this week!–and have a challenge that’s probably almost unique to Utah. We have lots of big families here, so it’s pretty common for a family to have 3 piano-aged children plus younger siblings. I have two moms already signed up, ready…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• big families, family discounts, multiple children in lessons, scheduling families, scheduling sibling lessons, sibling discounts

Hey, a few months ago I started contemplating the idea of having the first lesson be only the parents. This week I started that practice and to be honest, I LOVED IT. I rewrote some of the stuff and how it was said. I added…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• foundation session, life coaches, parent only lesson

I just finished my first Foundation session today. I guess I made the mistake of not telling every one that this was going to be all talking for the most part. When I said at the beginning of the session that we would NOT be…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• FIS, foundation session, Free Introductory Sessions, preparing for foundation session, relationship conversation

I am feeling happy about a new way I ran my latest Foundation Session. It is a class of 5, 5-7 year olds. I was looking for a way to engage the kids more and also to keep myself moving through the material. I found…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• adults, children, foundation session, garden analogy, group lessons, shared lessons, stool analogy, tools