Session Proposal: "How Was Your Practice This Week?"

“How was your practice this week?” is a question I ask my students at the beginning of each of their lessons and to which I was often hearing the same repeated response: “good.” My ears grew weary of this word and the nonchalant way that my students tossed it out. I wanted my students to start to honestly reflect upon their week’s work and so I created a chart with synonyms for “good” and “bad” which the students can refer to after I pose my weekly inquiry.

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Dr. Samara Humbert-Hughes is an Elementary Orchestra Teacher for the Chandler Unified School District in Chandler, AZ. Prior to moving back to her home state of Arizona, she served as the Director and Violin/Viola instructor for the Suzuki Academy of Columbia & UofSC Program and as an adjunct instructor in String Pedagogy at the School of Music at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Other teaching locations include England, Louisiana, and Oregon.

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