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Advanced Student in Groups

I have just had a call from an adult student with 10 years traditional background as a child, who, since seeing more advanced students playing at the my first recent piano concert, she is eager to get ahead and move faster with the program, feeling…

Student Who Wants to Quit

I have a 10-year-old boy who has had 70 lessons in a group with 2 others. He is one of my best students as far as practicing the way I tell him to. He does an excellent job of controlling events and learns his songs…

Losing Students

How do you respond to a student/and coach who decides after 5 lessons that Simply Music isn’t for them because they don’t get enough teacher time and playing time in a group environment?  At this point private lessons are not an option for me to…

Playing with Practice Pads and External Speaker

“Another thing I remember Jy saying was that if they don’t do it in your studio, they won’t do it at home. So I incorporated greater use of the keypad before going to the piano with both private and group lesson students. I gently but…

Using Practice Pads

With regard to the recent discussions about Practice Pads, I wish to add a word of caution. Please be careful to make sure that only a small or modest percentage of your class time is spent with individual students processing content on their individual Practice…

Putting Private Students Together

I’m full only because I have 5 private lessons that are probably too far from each other to catch up and pair together. Any thoughts on this? For example I have one student at the beginning of Book 4 and one finishing Book 4, one…

Organizing Shared Lesson Times

I have been gradually changing my studio over from Private to Shared Lessons. I need some suggestions from those of you who teach in small groups of up to 5.  I have a lot of trouble timetabling. I have 10 new students at the moment all…

Converting Private to Shared

Without wanting to repeat too much of what has already been said, I just wish to report on my experience with moving from private to shared. At the end of 2005 I notified all my private students that I would need to move them into…

Evolving from Smaller to Larger Shared Lessons

I’m dying to move from Private Lessons and smaller, Shared Lessons, to the far more fun and efficient lesson-size of 6 to 10 students. Thus far, I have never been able to get enough people of the right type (kids/adults) to commit to being in…

Young Child Who Will Not Practice

I need some advice concerning one of my young students. She is one of my favorite students. She has been with me for a year, and has done wonderful for the most part. She catches on real easily and carries out the pieces slowly and…