How do you deal with missed lessons?

opusmusic · Post by **opusmusic** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:31 pm

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

don p · Post by **don p** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:26 am

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.

steve smith · Post by **steve smith** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:19 am

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