Chapter Summary: Teachers can make or break a students learning experience and as consequence they can make or break the enjoyment of that particular activity for a student who already had desire to learn. Teachers can send the wrong message with excessive criticism and guilt of students who didn't learn at the right pace or the right way or who didn't want to play the music the same way the teacher wants it. This disconnect between teacher and student can be disastrous for kids. It's not that kids don't have a desire to learn, but we can stifle creativity and good will by trying to fit students into a mold when every student is different.
Key Concept: A teachers teaching style must match a students learning style and balance discipline with creative exploration to be most effective.
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Making Connections: I myself remember HATING piano lessons for the first 4 years of taking lessons. Every week I'd go to my lesson and I would get scolded for not practicing the music my teacher wanted me to practice. The disconnect was that I would practice a lot and play piano a lot, just not what my teacher wanted me to play. This meant that for several years my desire to play the piano and stick with it hung in the balance of guilt from my weekly lesson and for wasting my parents money and how badly I really wanted to learn and play music. Eventually my mom and my piano teacher found out that they could tap into that well of determination I had rather than fight against it and they would encourage my exploration and creativity while still teaching me what they wanted me to learn.
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