pacing

I’m having some issues with some students that want to move ‘faster’. There’s a lot we’re trying to fit in during a lesson, but for some students it doesn’t feel like enough, at least according to them. Usually with these students, the playlist suffers. Just…

• Last updated 9 years ago
• arrangements, Foundation songs, Gordon Harvey, impatience, Laurie Richards, motivation, pace of teaching, pacing, students moving ahead

I’d like to hear people’s strategies for stretching out the teaching of Foundation songs starting in about Level 4 beyond the obvious tactic of taking 2-5 or so weeks to learn the entire songs. I’m accustomed to teaching songs at this level and beyond over…

• Last updated 9 years ago
• F4, Foundation 4, Laurie Richards, managing expectations, pacing, playlist review, streams, Teacher Workshop Series, TWS

In regular lessons, we go at a pace appropriate for a given group/student and don’t preconceive how long it will take to get through any particular project(s). We also try to match students well so that a group will all go at close enough to…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• pacing, Workshops

I had a huge reminder this week that we can’t always see where we are going to end up with students. Remember the story that Einstein failed math?? People are different and the overview is just a suggestion. What brought this home to me: I…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• learning slowly, pacing, practice