My Relationship With Private Teaching

My relationship with private instruction as a whole has shaped my philosophy for living, and it has turned me into the person that I am today. I began my instruction early which helped to inspire me to maintain my studies into the advanced level. Consequently, I came to the Berklee college of music, where my relationship with private instruction continued to improve as my musicianship grew faster than ever before. Even before entering Berklee, my relationship with private instruction continued to grow through my own experience as a teacher; I was able to soon develop my own philosophies regarding the art of instruction. I began my instruction as a student of the Suzuki method on the violin at the age of ten. However, this is very late in …show more content…
The philosophy by which I teach has also been heavily influenced by the trial-by-fire teaching with which I started. When I began teaching in a private instruction setting, my only basis for attempting to teach had been the conversations that I’d had with my father regarding the subject. Furthermore, I quickly realized that certain things regarding the science of learning were not necessarily applicable in the practice of teaching. In addition, I learned that there is no specific way to teach that will work universally to reach everyone whom you’re teaching, but that every individual learns in a completely different way. In order to effectively teach someone in a one on one setting, a teacher must assess the ways in which their student processes information. After which, they must synthesize a method of giving their student the information needed to accomplish the task at hand. The classifications of learning, as thought of by many, fall into overarching categories including things like visual learning or auditory learning. However, using what one would think of as a purely visual method of learning on someone that a teacher may classify as a visual learner may not be effective. This is not because they do not learn through visual stimulus, it is instead that they have a very specific way of learning through this visual stimulus. This means that in order to effectively teach on an individual basis, a teacher must find the way by which their students process information, which will often be unique to them. This makes teaching, to me, the ultimate learning experience as well as the ultimate puzzle. It is the ultimate learning experience because everything I teach becomes reinforced in a new way every time I teach it. It is the ultimate puzzle because every time that I teach,