Student Management
Capitalizing on Self-generative Opportunities
I was looking forward to trying out the alternate lyrics (Star Spangled Banner) in lessons this week, because I had so much fun singing them. To my surprise it fell rather flat. One of the adult students found the lyrics amusing, and would have enjoyed…
Reply To: Getting the most out of reverse engineering
I am just covering my bases/honesty here – I just had a student inform me via email that she only enjoys learning the video-supported material and wonders if I can teach her only this or if I know a teacher who teaches only the SHM…
The Triangle Game
I wanted to share a game I created, (quite by accident, actually) that is extremely easy to make, well-loved by students and quite versatile. I was wanting to make a grab bag for students as they were working on transposition – i.e. pull a chord…
Traditional Students to SM
I have started teaching another 6 week session at our community center here. The first one I taught went amazingly well. Everyone got it and I am now teaching lessons to 2 of my previous students from that class. So, I just started another one.…
Quickly Progressing Student
Here’s a problem that’s good to have—first of all, I have an adult student who is progressing quickly and absolutely loving SM! She’s feeling a freedom with this method that she never had as a child when she took lessons. She just learned F1 “Ode…
Managing Appropriate Progress
I have been in this situation many times – i.e. students who are only marginally behind my own playing ability. Sometimes I’ve kind of fudged it by avoiding playing the entire piece, if it isn’t sounding smooth yet but I can still teach chunks of…
New Teachers and Relationship Conversation
I’ve been having more attrition than I’m used to among students. Two, I think, are a temporary hiatus, and two others were over-committed in their lives and needed to rearrange something. I know I can’t take it personally when a student decides to leave, but…
More on The Relationship Conversation
I’m seeing the effects of not staying on top of some things. One thing I have decided to do this year is to weave more conversations about the learning tools into my lessons, rather than just demonstrating them. My students need a better understanding of…
Chat – Getting Off To A Good Start
Bernie (USA) Welcome to this chat session entitled “Getting Off to a Good Start.” We’ll go ahead and get started. There may be others who will join us. What I’d like to do is leave questions for the end and take some time to share…
Students in a Valley
I know this subject has floated around, but any help you can offer is greatly appreciated! I have 2 siblings that have been with me for approximately 18 months. Practice is down and struggles have started at home! In fact I think it first started…