Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 2000/03

From: Janet McNaught <mcnaught@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Another adult student problem
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:26:29 -0500

Hi Mary

I have the opposite problem - my teacher keeps trying to talk while I'm playing!!

One thing that has to be "negotiated" with us adult students is teaching style.
We're away from the culture that reinforces authority - we are rewarded for
initiative, not following instructions. It's hard to have people tell us what to
do! Added to that, we have genuine enthusiasm for the adventure - I love
playing, here I have a teacher I am paying to listen to me - why shouldn't I play
as much as I want to.

The age difference may be a factor as well, but not out of disrespect, just out
of a general style of dealing with you younger folks.

These are all just from my perspective, a little tongue in cheek. I'm in the
same age "range" as your student, shall we say, and my teacher is younger. It
shouldn't make a difference, but I think that it does in subtle ways. And now I
only play when I'm told to.

Janet

MaryWBalch@-----.com wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> ........... She
> likes to play all the time, which is a good thing. The bad part is that she
> keeps on playing even when I am talking to her. So we end up wasting about 5
> minutes of a 30 minute lesson with this problem.
>
> Mary W. Balch
> Woodwinds Instructor

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