Practice Environment 4

(checklist 4 of 6 from the article A Healthy Practice Environment)

Instead of an article, this month I would like to pass on a series of checklists to help you and your student examine your practice process.  Practice is the most time consuming part of learning the instrument, and the part that happens without any teacher supervision, so it is worthwhile to re-evaluate from time to time to make sure you are on the right track.

What should the student say during practice?

• “I’d like to try that again.”
• “Could you write a note so we can ask Mrs. Baylor about how to …?”
• “My goal for this part is …”
• “Thank you for listening to me.”

  Try to mark one thing from this section that you want to add to your practice environment!