After 5 years of private teaching, my students are growing older and have many more conflicts in scheduling. Do you expect your students to be present every week (I do) and if they can’t, do you give them vacations or how do you make it work? What are your lesson attendance policies and do you have […]
Monday Mailbag
Monday Mailbag – Music Magazines
I have never ordered music/piano magazines and would like to get started. What’s your advice? Here are the three that I receive and really enjoy: American Music Teacher – automatically included in MTNA membership; lots of great articles and current info. Clavier Companion – good interviews, teaching tips, etc. Listen – a more generic music […]
Monday Mailbag – How to Teach by Rote
Natalie, how exactly do you teach these rote pieces? I am curious, as my students seem to lose what they learned at lesson before the next week. There are only a handful of students that I ever teach anything by rote. Kinesthetic/tactile learners are the best candidates for rote teaching because they tend to have […]
Monday Mailbag – The Treble Clef Game
What a great filing system. I’m interested in the treble clef on the side of the tall cabinet. What do you use it for? A game? counting goals? This is a much-loved game in my studio! It’s one of the first ones I made and students don’t mind a bit that it’s all constructed of […]
Monday Mailbag – Free Scale and Chord Progress Chart
I’m a bit confused on the metronome settings on your free scale and chord chart – a quarter and an eighth note side by side, same tempo? What’s the difference between (two) eighths at MM-60 and a quarter at MM-120? Also, regarding chords, do you mean each chord and its respective inversions within each key? […]
Monday Mailbag – How to Cover the Cost of Studio Incentives
For the Traveling to Triumph auction, did you collect the souvenirs yourself, enlist parents, or what? When I first started developing yearly practice incentive themes (visit this post for a list of some of the earlier themes that aren’t available in the resource store), I just charged families $10 for the student assignment book and […]
