Hey, just think back to your own school years. What my prior growth years have taught me though, and what it boils down to is: you need a system to track your students’ assignments and their progress.
Tracking Assignments is a Must!Įven though I scaled down my teaching this year in order to have more time for music productions and this blog, I still deal with a ton of students, though not the 50+/week anymore as just a few years ago. So you might think that you already covered something while actually you just recall an imagined future lesson. Part of the problem is that when at the end of a lesson you picture doing something with a student in the future, that vivid image might get stored similarly to an actual past experience in your mind. It’s simply a fact that mix-ups can and do happen when you teach more than a handful of students. No big deal, right? Or is it? You get old(er) and bad memory and dementia are inevitable, n’est-ce pas?Ībsolutely not. And rightly so, because I haven’t covered it with him, but with some other student instead.
I say something like, “That’s similar to the 2 string octave arpeggio shapes we’ve already discussed” only to get a startled look and the reply that my student doesn’t know what I’m referring to. Once in a while I would hand out a “new” song only to hear from my student that we’ve already played it a year ago. When you teach a lot of students, it’s hard to keep an overview of what you’ve already covered.
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