Tweaked Thoughts: Now With Purpose

Although I have been actively teaching piano (and sometimes drums and guitar), only has experience taught me to reflect on all that occurs while I am teaching, and the consequences of when a good job is done, and the consequences when a bad job is done.

This isn’t to say that all good jobs have happy endings, and all bad jobs have sad endings. Teaching is a two-way street. If despite encouragement to practice to succeed, and yet the student refuses to, then the consequences remain poor in favour of the student, despite good actions on the part of the teacher.

Here I will discuss the everyday joys and troubles of teaching music, and being a music teacher.

PS. I would also like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas for 2009. Here’s to family, community, love, joy, peace, and our students and children practicing piano in the New Year.