Comments on: Help Some More! http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/2008/10/24/help-some-more/ Relax, Share, and Laugh! Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:39:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Saville http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/2008/10/24/help-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Mike Saville Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:57:39 +0000 http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/?p=266#comment-674 I find it also helps to set an expectation with the parent on what a practice session will sound like. If the student is practising properly then the session will sound disjointed, awkward, bitty, too slow, very repetitive and least of all musical. I find that many parents expect practice to sound musical and like a concert - to be really effective practice certainly shouldn't be like this and parents should beware trying to make it so. I find it also helps to set an expectation with the parent on what a practice session will sound like. If the student is practising properly then the session will sound disjointed, awkward, bitty, too slow, very repetitive and least of all musical.

I find that many parents expect practice to sound musical and like a concert – to be really effective practice certainly shouldn’t be like this and parents should beware trying to make it so.

]]> By: Stengel99 http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/2008/10/24/help-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Stengel99 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:17:58 +0000 http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/?p=266#comment-666 Good stuff. I vividly remember my dad criticising my sister during one of her practice sessions. I was too young to have the vocabulary to explain to him why what he was doing was wrong, but I knew it wasn't helping. Too bad I didn't have your sheet at the time! Good stuff. I vividly remember my dad criticising my sister during one of her practice sessions. I was too young to have the vocabulary to explain to him why what he was doing was wrong, but I knew it wasn’t helping. Too bad I didn’t have your sheet at the time!

]]> By: Ruth http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/2008/10/24/help-some-more/comment-page-1/#comment-644 Ruth Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:25:55 +0000 http://www.pianoteacherblog.com/?p=266#comment-644 Private teaching is so different from public school settings. In the public school, the parents are not there and the kids have to problem solve by themselves. Perhaps that would be a good approach with your parents....to make a comparison. the parents need to see their role as the "encourager", not the student nor the teacher. Make your lesson assignments very clear and aim at teaching them to practice on their own. At lessons, provide plenty of magazines for the parents to read...or how about putting the parent on your studio computer for a distraction, while you teach. Private teaching is so different from public school settings. In the public school, the parents are not there and the kids have to problem solve by themselves. Perhaps that would be a good approach with your parents….to make a comparison. the parents need to see their role as the “encourager”, not the student nor the teacher. Make your lesson assignments very clear and aim at teaching them to practice on their own. At lessons, provide plenty of magazines for the parents to read…or how about putting the parent on your studio computer for a distraction, while you teach.

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