Ed Surge – Troy Strand
“To generate meaningful goals, a student needs to understand who they are as a learner, where they are in a particular skill and where they want to go—but that can be difficult, especially for younger learners. Too often, we create goals for our students instead of with them. But the thing about setting goals is that if the learner can’t articulate them, they’re pointless. A music teacher’s job is to corral the disparate goals of each student based on their instrument, experience, skill level and dedication to practice—and drive them incrementally forward. This isn’t very different than an academic teacher’s job—or at least it shouldn’t be.”(more)