Topic: How do you deal with missed lessons?

As a music teacher, what do you do when a student misses lessons?  Do you assign double the work, or just the same amount of workload?  Do you require them to take a longer lesson right before they leave?  any thoughts are appreciated, thanks!

-Theresa Chen
Los Angeles music teacher

Re: How do you deal with missed lessons?

It depends on the situation. If I know they are not going to be there beforehand then I may give them some extra work to hold them over. If they are going to be away on a vacation I won't bother because they won't work on it.  One thing I'm always conscious of is to not overwhelm them with material.

If they miss a lesson that was canceled a day or so before I'll just see where they are at when they come back and move on from there.

Re: How do you deal with missed lessons?

It really depends on the situation. Most of of the times it works by assigning more work.

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