Why So Many Guitar Teachers Have A Hard Time Helping Their Students
Your guitar students become bored and frustrated when you can’t get them the results they want in their playing. To help them become better guitarists, you need to avoid three main teaching mistakes.
Teach your guitar students more effectively by not making the following mistakes:
Mistake #1. They Don’t Tailor Guitar Lessons To A Student’s Mindset
Students learn differently based on the kind of mindset they have. Some guitar students have a very strong mindset, respond well to high expectations and practice exactly what you tell them. The most common kind of student has a weaker mindset that is filled with fear, self-doubt, or insecurity. They experience much more frustration. To get better results for your students, you need to pay attention to which kind of mindset you are working with.
While teach your guitar students, stay aware of which type you are working with. Help students with self-doubt or insecurity by building their confidence with frequent victories in their playing. This helps them understand that they truly can master things on guitar and slowly helps them become more strong-minded.
Mistake #2. They Don’t Help Students Fix Their Problems
Many guitar teachers do not really know how to help their students fix their problems. Rather than addressing their problems at the root, they just give the student more things to practice. This gives your students a lot of things to practice without their core problem ever being addressed, leading to unneeded frustration.
Instead of just giving your students a lot of new things to work on, focus on fixing the current problems they have. Do this by coming up with unique exercises that expose the student’s issues and make it fun for them to correct them.
Mistake #3. They Show Them What To Do, But Not How To Do It Correctly
Guitar students make the most progress in between lessons not during lessons. Yet, most guitar teachers simply show their students what to do and assume they’ll practice correctly at home. When students are left to practice on their own, they often do things wrong and their improvement is very slow.
Help your students understand precisely how to practice the things you show them during their lesson. Don’t let them leave until you know for sure they will practice correctly at home!
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About The Author:
Tom Hess is a successful professional guitar teacher, composer and guitarist. He also trains guitar teachers how to improve their guitar teaching methods. Visit his website, tomhess.net to read more articles about guitar teaching, get free guitar teacher skill assessments and guitar teaching tips.
