Time Management
Master List of Projects
I’m finding I’m sporadic in assigning projects in all the streams, and in an effort to be more consistent I am trying to plan differently. For my lesson plans/tracking I’m going to use the columns idea someone shared recently with Date, Foundation, Accompaniment, Improv and…
Lesson plan with multiple streams
There’re so many great supplemental programs available even for Level 1 now. I start to feel that it is very tight during lessons to use some of those supplemental programs when we already have variations/arrangement, and composition/improvisation. I would really love to give the students…
Time Management
I have a non-music related question regarding how you manage your own time in your businesses. I’m a new teacher, but also a mom of 3 with lots of other responsibilities (as I’m sure all of you have as well). I experience a significant amount…
Playlist Review
The question has come up, “How do I review the playlist each week in a timely manner?” I’d like to suggest some things and open this up to more of you contributing your ideas of how to manage this important component of lessons. If…
Fitting it all In
Hello Teachers, I wanted to provide a bit of clarification here and repost information I’ve sent out. There are a number of questions here that I’d like to address, in no particular order. First, I want to clarify that once I start on an Arrangement Project,…
Tips for Preparing and Teaching Level 4
I’ve heard a bit about how much harder Level 4 is. As I’m moving into that now with my students, could you share experiences of how Level 4 did or did not work well for you, and how to avoid pitfalls. In a nutshell –…
Overwhelmed with All These Streams
How do you guys do this? I spend HOURS and HOURS learning these different streams, and planning them into lessons. I’m just about to start learning Foundation 5 (I have two students right on my tail) and I can now see how wrong I’ve been…
Learning SM as a Student
This is an edited outline of an email posted on the Forum by one of our teachers. She was a relatively new student herself at the time she began her Teacher Training. Her experience, as outlined below, is not uncommon. I have also included responses…
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…
Keeping Notes to a Minimum & Managing Projects
I would like to add to what Neil has said about “Writing Notes” and “Managing Projects” by sharing my experiences of these issues in the hope of helping new teachers. WRITING NOTES I was a “traditional” piano teacher before becoming a Simply Music teacher. When…