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Originally Posted by ezrs  I would also recommend having two parts to each lesson: first part lecture, second part playing. i like to start off by performing examples of what i am teaching, explaining it and then having the students try playing it, walking around to see what they are doing and giving individual time for each student while everyone gets used to whatever they are learning on the instrument. this way you dont have to worry about people playing over each other or getting drowned out in a sea of low frequencies hope thats helpful! |
In my life before retirement I taught adult classes on several subjects and what ezrs said works very well.
- Tell um what you are going to tell um.
- Then tell um.
- Break into groups and let them work on what you told um.
- Interact with the groups. Let the group know that in a few minutes you will ask for a report on what they learned, i.e. they need to appoint a spokesperson.
- Call the session back together and ask each group's spokesperson to tell the class what his/her group learned from all this.
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That format is classic adult training 101. Kids are used to being lectured to, however, adults can take just so much lecture. They do like to discuss what they are being taught and they do like to work in groups. If you let them good things happen. Depending on the subject matter this format will take longer to teach. I would suspect at least an hour per subject.
Kids also like this approach, however, their attention span becomes an issue that must be taken into account.
