adapting the curriculum
Dreams Arrangements Chord for Small Hands
If a younger student can’t yet manage the second chord of Dreams Arrangement 1, is there a preference in a three-note version? Fingers 123 (shifting 3) throughout or 135 (shifting 3 and 5) with the 9th omitted for now? I think they both work and…
Accommodating Anxiety and Perfectionism
I have a question about accommodations. I have a 10 year old student with severe anxiety and perfectionism. She is unable to understand that she needs to practice songs even if she doesn’t like them. She is working on this skill, among others, with a…
Adapting curriculum to student with traditional experience
I have a potential student that has had around two years of traditional lessons, some of which has been spread out over several years, so may not be the strongest of two years. She just finished her freshman year of high school. Mom tells me…
Ideas for teaching autistic student
Hi Friends, I would like collect ideas for teaching autistic students (the less cognitive ones). When these students don’t engage, learn with the diagrams or can’t make sense out the diagram, what other ways have you found it helpful? I have used singing, hand-over-hand help,…