How Effort-Focused Praise Creates Confident Kids
Learning new activities like piano lessons or sports can bring on frustration for kids, especially at first. Piano teachers often hear, “I can’t do it,” when a student attempts something even slightly challenging or new. This makes sense to us as adults: When we start to…
There’s No Such Thing as Talent — Or Is There?
Playing a musical instrument well has often been associated with whether or not someone has talent and how much talent they are believed to have. Karen is good at the piano, her brother is not. Karen must have more musical talent than her brother… correct? The…
Getting the Most Out of Piano Lessons
Most piano students in the United States have one piano lesson per week lasting 30 or 45 minutes. That’s very little time for a teacher to build rapport, instruct, demonstrate, model, correct and assist. Imagine a classroom teacher teaching Math for only 30 minutes per…
