While I’m reasonable about the situation, I’m certainly not condoning this behaviour.
Many households are absolutely frantic during this time and it’s incredibly easy for students to forget all sorts of things. It’s more often due to a lack of organisation and rushing around in the morning before school. Students generally don’t leave their books at home on purpose. If you send them home or back to class, then you’re also missing a great opportunity to do something different with them, that you might otherwise not readily make time for. While it would be perfectly reasonable for you to rant and rave and get upset about your student forgetting everything, I’ve found that this doesn’t really have a very positive impact on the student, the forthcoming 30 minutes or your ongoing relationship. So what do you do when all your plans have gone out the window?Įven if you luckily have perfect students who always remember their books and don’t often find yourself in this situation, the suggestions below will hopefully be of use to at the start of a new year or term or immediately after a big exam or recital program when you’d like to try something new. But when this responsibility gets transferred to the student as they get older, things can sometimes go wrong. If you’re teaching at home and parents bring their children to lessons, this tends to be less of an issue as parents tend to do the organising for child. Nothing.Īs I predominantly teach teenagers, this seems to happen a fair bit and it is particularly an issue if you’re teaching at a school or institution where students have to make their own way to lessons. No music, no assignment book/music diary, no notes from last week. Have you ever had a lesson where your student rocks up but has forgotten to bring his/her books?
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