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I might become a music teacher for kids. Help?
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I taught classroom EFL for 16 years and have continued tutoring on the side even after I got back into marketing. A couple of pieces of advice leap to mind:
In tutoring treat the students with the respect and gravitas you'd give an adult, with perhaps a slightly firmer hand in direction, and a slightly gentler hand in voice and word selection.
Never presume to paint a picture of their future in your head because ... well, for now well over 50 tutored students, I've had 3 who got the fire of what I was teaching. The rest just did the bare minimum needed to pass their exams and move on in their lives. When you find one in whom a passion ignites, enjoy that and cater to that. For the rest, just do the job you're hired to do.
If the lessons are interesting to the students, you have the greatest chance of igniting that interest. Which means if they want pop, give them pop. (Don't ask me how many times I've had to play and teach "Yesterday Once More" here, despite me finding it the single sappiest song in all of existence!)
I am so in awe of what you wrote. I want to ignite that spark in children, and I know it's a private school, so there's that, at least. All the kids are there because they want to learn music, not being dragged there or anything.