Considering the Exchange

Let’s examine this is a simple exchange in a music learning conversation.  So dad was so impressed by his daughters observation he shared it with the teacher. 

Implied in the conversation is that the student doesn’t actually ask any questions even when prompted by the teacher.

The teachers day was made, can you imagine how great that feels to get that kind of feedback. It was such a simple thing but so much appreciated. Now don’t we all have a tendency to take our teachers for granted most of the time.

Sometimes it’s these types of abstract comments that have so much more meaning than the day to day thank you we so often give.

Taking this a bit further, the student, parent, teacher relationship has just been engaged to potentially improve the learning experience. Look at the possible options. Now a gentle push to have the student think about what they are doing and to be prepared to ask the teacher a question will start to push the learning envelope.

The observation that they may question and answer both, and provide for dialog on the issue for a deeper study of the issue.

I’m hoping that this music learning conversation has opened up to you the possibility of improving your relationships in a way that will allow you, your child, and your teachers to work to improve the performance.

I’m now thinking of a subtle way to ask leading questions that will spark an idea for improved learning.

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Learning Resources

The Getting It Down Cold Workbooks are a high value resource to allow you not only to learn the theory, but systematically own it as well. Comparatively speaking the workbooks combine material that would be covered in several method books and over a year or more worth of lessons. Testing and trying are the only ways to see if they work within your style.

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