I am very excited to finally be caught up with the times and using...online scheduling! For several years I've been searching for a solution that would be easy to use for both parents, students, and me. It's been surprisingly hard to find!
This year I decided I was determined to find a solution and gave several providers a trial run over the summer. The winner is...Fons! I will confess to knowing the founder personally and I can attest to his work ethic and dedication to providing a quality service that fills the needs of subscribers. But what won me over was (no surprise) Fons itself. It's been simple and easy to use, and offers all the features students and I need, with the ability to turn off those we don't. Now students will be able to schedule their own lessons and move them if necessary, all on their own. The login and account creation is super-simple and takes under one minute. Really! Current students, look for emails from me in the next couple of weeks as I open up the online schedule. If you're not on the email list and would like to be, just let me know! I hope that this method of scheduling will make it simpler for everyone by avoiding the back and forth of email and making it easier to change a time when there is a conflict. Longtime students are scheduling their times, and the feedback has been positive.
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This morning a parent let me know her child hadn't been getting in much home practice and asked for ideas on how to make that happen. We brainstormed some ideas, which I will share here, in addition to many strategies that have worked with students over the years. Practice Ideas:
These ideas should get you started. I'll be back with more ideas soon! Remember, learning music is always a partnership. For children it's a partnership between student, teacher, and parents. If practice isn't where it should be, leverage the partnership and start a conversation between all three parties. Decide on a strategy that the student is invested in, the parent can support, and the teacher can check in on. Set things up to give the strategy its best shot, and if it's not working after a couple of weeks, try a new strategy! |
AuthorHi! My name is Mariya, and I teach flute and piano lessons in Redmond, WA and online. Here I share thoughts about learning music and helping others learn how to play an instrument. Archives
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