Spring time seems to be the time that people become interested in cello lessons. I have three trial lessons this week. That's up from zero the past two months. And there are some teaching prospects for the coming year as well.
I am wondering what my future will be for the school program where I am teaching. It has been a challenging year, and yet so rewarding to see the work that has been done. It is exciting to see students playing the cello, when 7 months ago they couldn't.
And yet, coming away from the belt test I am reminded of a teaching focus that I would like to strengthen in myself. It is something that I think can be quite natural and yet it needs practice. When I see my students struggle with finding good posture, or fluidity, or intonation, I remind myself of my own ability to see where I want to be, combined with my inability to be there. Teaching and learning require the pointing out and the following, the realization and the actualization. Neither is instantaneous.
I recorded my students for them to do their own self evaluations and for me to do them as well. It's funny to frame something, to see it set apart of the the run-up of the day and the week. Here is this perfect little person, full of many parts, from their family, from their family's past, from their school and peers. Sometimes trying, sometimes distracted. Seven perfect little people, doing things they once couldn't do.
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