I'm thrilled to pieces to share this with you today! My dear friend Becca from my ASU days was generous to write up a post on The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Seen A Violin Teacher Do For Motivation. Really, I LOVE how tangible and cool it is! Becca is a violinist extrordinare who has been sharing her awesome skills as a private and public teacher and has now expanded the student pool by 2 adorable boys. She told me about this technique a good 8 years ago at least, and it has stuck in my brain like peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. I can't wait to try it with WonderGirl! Thanks Becca!!!
When I first started violin, I was blessed with the best teacher EVER. Her name was Robin. If I had a good lesson, she would let me go outside and jump on the big trampoline while she would chat with my mom. When they called me back inside I knew it was time for the best part… BEADS!!! If I had mastered a song that week, or achieved a particular goal we had set, I got to pick—get this—one pony bead to put on the shoelace I kept in my violin case. Are you thoroughly impressed? I don’t know what it was about getting to string a shiny plastic bead onto that rainbow-striped shoelace (yes, I picked it out myself), but it was BIG.
When I started teaching violin lessons I thought I’d try this out on my students. Each week we decide together what they need to do to earn a bead the next week. The goal could be mastering a new song, memorizing a page of music, demonstrating correct posture for the entire lesson, or even remembering to bring all of your music (you'd be surprised :). The adaptability is the beauty of it. I also offer an extra bead if they have an overall great lesson or impress me in some other way. Extra beads have been earned for a story written about the song they’re playing, a drawing of their violin, making up a song and playing it, making up words to a song they’ve played and singing it... It’s fun to see what they come up with.
Students turn their strand of beads into keychains, bracelets, etc. A new favorite is tying a big loop on one end of the cord so you can hang it on the scroll and show off your beads while you play. Some kids can even look at their strand and tell what they did to earn each one. Somehow, they love this simple reward. Probably for the same reason I did as a child. Each bead serves as a physical representation of what they have accomplished in an area of study where successes are often intangible.
Have fun trying it out!
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