shared lessons

When you have students unfold the patterns on their (printed) keyboards, do you also have them put both hands together first on their keyboard? I have tried this but found that I can’t watch them all and so don’t know if they are doing it…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• both hands, controlling the events, group lessons, hands together, observatory learning, patterns, practice pads, private lessons, shared lessons

I just finished a lesson. It was traumatic! While it’s soooo fresh in my mind: I have a mum and her 2 daughters – 14 and 10.They all started as a group of 3 a year ago – the 14 year was leaving the others…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• behavior, claiming territory, composition, homeschool, improvisation, private lessons, requirements, shared lessons, teenagers

I’ve started teaching groups of 3 and 4 lately and I’m enjoying it for the most part. One group of 4 however always seems to be out of control. The parents are helpful in keeping them in control, but I feel like I’m often telling…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• behavior, claiming territory, group lessons, shared lessons

How do you go about teaching arrangements to a group of 5? They don’t have SHMs, so do you mostly have them learn through watching. But how do you process it into their fingers at the lesson? Do you have them each take a turn…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• arrangements, Dreams Come True, group lessons, key pads, practice pads, shared lessons, speaking instructions out loud

How does one handle choice of accompaniments in a group? Do they all learn the same ones at the same time or can you have a few going at the same time? How much choice do you give the students over which accompaniment to learn…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• accompaniment, eye of the needle, flexibility, group lessons, Neil Moore, quantity vs. quality, shared lessons

I have 45 students mostly in shared lessons of 2-3 and the rest are private lessons. I do 15 hours contact teaching time. I also homeschool 2 kids, so time wise it works very well for me. In the very last teacher training that Neil…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• benefits of shared lessons, private lessons, shared lessons

I have a working parent, interested to start taking lessons alongside her child (neither has begun yet). I appreciate that logistically this makes far more sense, than for her to join a parent class, and then also attend her child’s class, when she already has…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• claiming territory, lessons, parent and child lesson, shared lessons

I have a working parent, interested to start taking lessons alongside her child (neither has begun yet). I appreciate that logistically this makes far more sense, than for her to join a parent class, and then also attend her child’s class, when she already has…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• claiming territory, lessons, parent and child lesson, shared lessons

I am a new teacher, and about to have a conversation with the head of a primary school, to ask for permission to do shared lessons (with only 2-3 students). The school does not allow shared lessons (for guitar groups etc, which would be larger…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• benefits of shared lessons, shared lessons

I  keep getting students who are not “happy” with their group (for various unimportant reasons) and want to either move group or have private one-on-one lessons instead. I prefer to teach mainly in groups but find myself “bending over backwards” for students only to have…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• claiming territory, coachabilty, coaching, group lessons, private lesson, Robin Keehn, selective coaching, shared lessons