Thank you for your support in assisting him to create a practice routine it makes such a difference to our lesson time when he is feeling prepared!Ģ. It is lovely to see how confident he is in lessons after a week when he has spent time at the piano at home. (Student’s Name) is finding ways to fit regular home practice time into his schedule. As (Student’s Name) note reading skills have matured, she has found the confidence to explore new pieces with less assistance than previously required. She is now able to approach her pieces with confidence and accuracy, and her sight-reading skills have really blossomed. (Student’s Name) has developed superb note-reading abilities this term. (Student’s Name) has gained a lot of confidence in her note-reading skills and really enjoys the note-reading activities we do in lessons.ģ. She quickly names notes without difficulty, uses cues in her music to decode notes that she doesn’t immediately recognize, and is improving her intervallic reading to aid in developing fluency. (Student’s Name) has greatly improved her note reading this term. We will continue to work on this ability in her lessons and with the materials I send home for practice.Ģ. (Student’s Name) is gaining confidence when sight-reading and is learning to use cues in her music to decode notes that she doesn’t immediately recognize. As she continues to practice this skill, her ability to name notes will improve and have a positive effect on her fluency. (Student’s Name) has worked very hard this term to improve her note reading. To complete a piano student report card in under 5 minutes, choose one comment from each category below, insert the student’s name, type it into an email (or put it on paper if you wish to be more formal) and press send. Each category contains three comments to choose from: a comment for kids who need improvement, a comment for kids working “at level”, and a comment for kids who are exceeding expectations. This would be really bad for business!Ĭomment-based report cards, on the other hand, are really good for business! They give you an opportunity to connect with parents, praise their children, and lay the groundwork for improving areas for improvement.īelow we are including comment templates for six categories of assessment that will help you quickly craft report cards for your students. Letter grades can be vague and often carry negative connotations.Īs a business owner, you do not want to assign your clients Cs and Ds. But piano report cards need not include letter grades. When people hear the words, “Report Cards”, their minds immediately leap to letter grades. In today’s post, we’re going to provide you with ready-made report card comments that will allow you to churn out these mid-term assessments in no time at all. Piano report cards should be comment-based and anecdotal no need to sweat over letter grades and tests ? If this sounds like a lot of work, don’t worry, it’s not. An important way to demonstrate this commitment is to use a report card to show parents that we genuinely care about the musical development of their kids. For this to happen, parents need to see how committed we are to their children. If we want parents to keep sending their children back to our studios year after year, it is important that we keep them in the loop.Īs piano teachers, it is our goal to keep kids in lessons. It was also a reminder to me that piano teachers should be doing mid-year assessments as well. It was a shock to realize their assessments meant that the school year was already more than half over! Last week my daughters brought home their Term 1 report cards.