Goals Music Students Can Choose

1. "I want to improve cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social, or physical challenges."

2. “I want to learn the basic skills.” Parents' initiative is to give them a fun way to "learn" and get ahead in school. We will make sure this is accomplished while simultaneously helping them develop self-assessment skills with tons of encouragement and fun game activities along the way.

3. “I just enjoy making music.” Parents' purpose is to help their children overcome cognitive challenges at school. We will make sure they have new repertoire music pieces to learn when they’ve assessed themselves at accomplishing their “enjoyment” goal for the last piece.

4. “I want to compete in a contest (it doesn't have to be music related), or I want to entertain the folks in the community nursing home.” We’ll teach self-assessment skills and drill them until they’ve met their assessment goal.

5. “I want to perform at my Graduation ceremony, a wedding, or a special birthday or holiday celebration.” We'll hone in further on their self-assessment skills, so we’ll drill, record, listen, and tweak some more.

6. “I want to play with the group worship band at church.” Their self-assessment skills should be fully operational by this time, and their self-motivation should be high, so we’ll move them into an advanced-accelerated lesson plan and drill on their performance and speed to adapt quickly to changing scenarios when playing chords or harmonizing on a singing team.

7. “I want to teach music.”

8. “I want to become a professional musician in some capacity such as composing/publishing, recording artist/engineer, sound tech, concerts/traveling band, etc.”

• With Goal #1, we carefully help adult students or parents learn to assess accurately and document improvements as they occur.
  
  

• With Goal #2, students will receive stickers, high-fives, drum-rolls, and lots of celebration for every skill developed. This stage is all about having “FUN”. Plus, they will have a few musical pieces to enjoy for a lifetime. This will take 10-20 minutes of practice daily as a parent/child fun activity, making memories together, especially for children under 10 and not reading fluently on their own yet.

• With Goal #3, Achievement Cards will be issued with a special collection sleeve as a memory keepsake. This takes the least amount of “on-their-own-practice” necessary. It’s all about making music an enjoyment for a lifetime.

• Goals #4-8, the student has an intrinsic goal to reach and will apply themselves, self-adjusting priorities to make plenty of “practice time” happen. The goals achieved are the reward, and the teacher celebrates them along the way, explaining the “whys” behind each step.