Why name this blog "In pencil, please"? Well, I'm a piano teacher. When you teach kids, you know all of the crazy things kids can find to write in. Pen, marker, crayon, colored pencil, dry erase markers...even Wite-out! I'm always asking my students to write on their music in pencil so that we can change things if we need to. Do books still come back scribbled with purple crayon? Yes, but I try!
"In pencil, please" also has another meaning for me. As a new(er) teacher, I'm still learning. I also still make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes, they need some serious "erasing." If I wrote every studio policy and lesson plan "in pen," I wouldn't have any students left! My studio and teaching methods are constantly being amended and improved.
So I'm here to keep track of ideas that work for me and my students... and definitely some things that were a bust. I hope this information helps another new(er) piano teacher, and I certainly welcome comments to aid my teaching!
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