Patience: Your Teaching Super Power

Some superheroes have x-ray vision.  Some have invisibility.  Others, telepathy, teleportation or even time-travel.  But there’s another superpower we tend to forget about.  As a music teacher, your superpower is patience.  

And, luckily, no matter how hard your students try to diminish it, it’s a power that never expires.

Setting Expectations

Your students will do what you expect them to do.

If you expect them to be noisy and disruptive, then they will do just that.  Even without you giving them permission.

If you expect them to be well-behaved and to listen respectfully, they will.

How to tell off a student

It’s tricky when you realise you have to discipline a student.  You want them to like you, and by telling someone off, you’re risking them not liking you.  Or so you think…

Group Lessons - Discipline

Ok – here we go.  Because, let’s be honest, sometimes you just have to tell someone off.

Group Lessons - Classroom Management

Ahh, the big one.  The question every beginner teacher asks: what if they’re naughty?

Firstly, let me remind you that corporal punishment is illegal…