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Calendars, Goals & the BIG Secret About Our Teaching Learn how to teach goal setting and organization to your violin students by using a calendar and working backward. Not a teacher? Not a problem, this is still great content for students and parents to help you streamline your goals and clarify your focus. You will find it especially useful if you are preparing for a performance. Plus, I also share what I think is the big secret about the work we do as violin teachers: We are not just teaching the violin... We are not just teaching music...  We are teaching our students life - how to live a life with purpose and for how to navigate and process the complexities of the human experience. That is the “Big Secret” alluded to in the title and more specifically that by teaching our students to have success with their violin skills and musical expression we are sharing with them a template for how to have success in other areas of their life as well. One way we can do this is to set goals and use a calendar to create a plan for how to turn these goals into a reality. Goals are like GPS coordinates for your dreams. All of my advanced and older students get a hard copy of a 9-month calendar at the beginning of the school year and we sit down together and write in all of the performances, dress rehearsals, group classes and auditions. Then, we work backward from this structure to plan for our musical goals to best prepare for them and have success. For my younger or less advanced students, I give them a 3-month calendar in the months preceding our solo recital and do a shorter version of the planning mentioned above. In short, we are using music and the violin to teach our young students how to make their dreams come true and we need to offer them concrete tools in this process. Hardcopies of calendars that are organized by the teacher and student together help both parties clarify goals and create a structure for achieving success in these desired outcomes. To see a demonstration in more detail of how to use a calendar to support your violin goals please view the video below. Win an Entire Set of Poly-Pads
Entering is easy - share in the comments below the answer to this question as it relates to your new school year and/or music making: "What's the Best that Can Happen?"  Winner will be chosen at random on September 30, 2018. Free *Gift With Purchase - While Supplies Last *$10 minimum purchase needed to qualify for the free gift. * Limit one set per customer. It is time to celebrate -
I also want to celebrate the first physical item for sale in the Music for Young Violinists store - Violin & Fiddle postcards. Having elements connected to our passions and goals placed in our environment helps us create an identity and culture and supports our long-term goals. I love mail, all things violin and expressing gratitude, so the postcards were a heartfelt project for me to create. I reserved a portion of them for sharing as gifts with purchase in September. While supplies last, a colorful pack of postcards will be sent in the mail to violin sheet music orders starting today.  |
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AuthorHi! It's me, Heather. I absolutely love working on the Music for Young Violinists project and all the many facets: blogging, website, music, teaching materials, freebies, videos, newsletter and giveaway contests. The best part is connecting with you so feel free to drop me a line. You can learn more about me on the "ABOUT" page. Thanks! |
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