The joys of teaching piano

I love teaching piano! It's so rewarding to see your students' progress!

For my piano practicum class, we have to bring one of our students to have a lesson in front of the class. After your lesson, Dr. Anderson gives you some insights and ideas to improve your teaching. Well, today was my turn and my student came to class this morning. I've been teaching Peter since the 2nd week of September, so he's been taking lessons from me for about 2 months. I was kind of nervous, but I think it went really well. He played 3 pieces he's learned from the first Suzuki book, and he played really well! I was surprised! He's usually pretty good, but I thought he was gonna get nervous to play in front of all of us, but he managed it really well. Dr. Anderson said it was really impressive that he's only taken piano lessons for a couple of months and he's playing really well! :)

His mom told me that she's tried to make him take piano lessons before, but he wasn't interested, so he didn't; but now he's practicing all the time, and his sister is jealous that he's taking piano lessons, so I'm gonna teach them both in January! I'm way excited! Peter is so dedicated. He always comes prepared to his lesson. Last lesson was on 11-11-11, and I asked him if he had a special wish to make at 11:11, and he said:"I want to be a better pianist", isn't that cute!!!??

He brought me a gift today, and I opened it and saw a pair of "smart" gloves. They're SO cool!!! You can use your iPod or phone without taking off your gloves!! I've showed them to everybody because they're so dang cool! haha..

On the other hand, my piano lesson was today, and it went pretty good!

Then, I got a root beer float to celebrate that my day has been freaking awesome!