For 33 years I have been teaching students with ages ranging from 5 to 60 plus. As you can imagine, their needs and interests are extremely varied.  I spend time each week planning lessons for each student, with a particular focus and clear aims and objectives defined.  I take time to reflect on last week’s lesson, focusing on what went well and what could have gone better and look at ways of improving my teaching approach.  Each of my students have very different learning styles, therefore each lesson plan is unique. 

As a piano teacher, I have to be versatile, adaptable, creative, organised, confident and often have to think on the spot as often the lesson plan I have created is not appropriate at that particular time.  Maybe a student has struggled with their piece during the week, so we need to spend time looking at it a different way, sometimes students have a particular interest and have a plan themselves for what they would like to cover in a lesson or something has happened at school to upset them so we need to have a really fun lesson to help cheer them up.  I need to stay on top of current music and what is popular so I can suggest learning familiar pop songs, particularly to keep the interest of my teenage students.