This is the handout from the parent education class, which started
today. If you were unable to attend this time, please feel free to come
for the next parent education class.
New Time!!!: The next class will be October 18th, 10:00-10:30AM, room 210.
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How to have a
cooperative Home practice session?
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Four reasons to practice
1. Simply love the music, or fun playing
2.
Peer pressure
3.
Rewards and consequences
4.
Someone makes them to practice
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Remember
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Children
like to PLAY an instrument, they don’t like to PRACTICE
§ The process of repetitive practice is
biologically and psychologically opposed to a child’s nature
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Teachers usually pay attention those issues during the lesson.
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Praise
with concrete detail. – But you don’t have detail the reason.
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Just talk
what is going on right now.
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Explain as
short as possible
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Not
praising their result, but praise their efforts and process
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Do not
praise too much
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Praise as
soon as students are able to do it.
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Don't
tell. Give suggestion, or ask.
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Don’t be
emotional. If students cannot do it, they
are not ready.
§ Simplify the issue.
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Three important factor
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Never
lose self-control
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Slow, quiet voice– don’t be emotional at all
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Speak as short as possible – one sentence/word
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Don’t
tell, but give suggestions and ask until they get it
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But focus only one issue.
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Give them
extra time to process
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Provide quiet time to process
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Don’t make them to do fast. They need extra time to do things.
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When doing any kind of new things, the brain
must decipher a great deal of information simultaneously
If you frustrate, children are frustrated also. When you frustrate, stop what you are doing,
or tell children to do a different task.
