The practice incentive I developed for last year – Go For The Gold! – is now compiled and available for purchase.
In the spirit of the Olympics, I developed a practice incentive with an Olympic theme. One new thing I tried was assigning each student to a team and then basing the winners on the total team points rather than individual points. This worked surprisingly well! The students developed more of a sense of camaraderie than they have with any of the other practice incentives I’ve developed, so that was exciting to see. I also designed the system in such a way that every student, regardless or age or ability, had an equal chance to earn points and propel their team forward. Each team had a variety of ages and levels represented and each team color corresponded to one of the colors of the Olympic rings. Here’s a photo of my studio wall part way through one of the sessions:
The Go For The Gold practice incentive package contains:
* several more photos from my studio
* all the files you need to print the studio wall decorations and individual assignment books for each student that are specially designed for the Go For The Gold practice incentive
* a list of instructions to walk you through what to do to prepare for the start of the program
* an overview of how the program works from week to week
* additional notes
* a list of resources I recommend
Once you complete payment, you will receive an e-mail with a link to download the file package. Read the teacher_instructions.doc file first and you should be up and running in no time! Feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail if you have any questions.
Natalie, I sent another email before, but I can’t open the Go for the Gold download that I purchased. I have the most recent version Adobe Acrobat and everything. Any suggestions?
Thanks for letting me know, Kristi! I’ll investigate the issue, but in the meantime I’ve sent you an e-mail with the package. It should open no problem!
What are the (I’m guessing) composer cards on top of you piano in the above picture? Did you make those or can you purchase them somewhere?
Those are actually note cards that I left in the package and put on display on those frame stands. I’m sure they are still available somewhere, but I don’t remember the name of the company from which I bought them (at a convention).
Hi Natalie, I purchased this practice incentive a few days ago and never received an e-mail. Did you get my payment through paypal? Please let me know, thanks! I’m excited to read it over and get started on this new incentive for my students.
Hi Shauna!
Just sent you an e-mail with the download link. There must have been a glitch in the system, or maybe the first e-mail got filtered into a spam folder! Anyway…let me know if you need anything else!