Teaching: practical articles for music teachers
This dossier is about the craft itself: teaching music students, week after week. How do you prepare a first lesson, how much new material can a student handle, and when is less actually more? The articles draw on more than twenty years of experience as a drum teacher and focus on concrete choices in the lesson room: lesson structure, structure versus freedom, practice assignments that actually work and dealing with students who get stuck. Written for independent music teachers as well as teachers working within a music school who want to build their lessons more deliberately.
Why adult beginners are underestimated
They learn more slowly, but they understand more.
Why teaching less often means learning more
Covering less doesn't mean learning less.
How much new information can a student process?
Why explaining less sometimes leads to more learning.
Why the first lesson matters more than the first month
What's really at stake in those first fifty minutes.
What I try to achieve in a first lesson
Not the technique, but the feeling someone takes home with them.