Goals

Practice Format & Goals

• Each practice session should have a goal, even if it is a number of correct repetitions.
  

• Parents, give them a choice between 2-3 goals you know that I may have assigned you during the week. This gives them some independence and a feeling they are in control, yet keeping some control within your grasp. ;o)

"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill!" p. 40

• There are always "bad days." On these days suggest a mini-concert for your family or stuffed animals or even pets! :-) When they play their pieces suggest a 1-point goal, but stick to only 1 or else the concert will probably not work!

All quotes are from To Learn with Love by William & Constance Starr

Specific, Reasonably Hard, but Attainable Goals

• Give them a goal in which they can work a little to achieve, yet is not too hard for them and leaves them in frustration.
  
• We want them to know they can achieve it.
  
• This will give them more incentive and thus, they will put a little more effort into it.