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Today’s episode discusses a Suzuki Triangle goal setting tool that brings an interesting perspective to the Suzuki Triangle relationship of the parent, student, and teacher. This tool brings the goals of each person in the Suzuki Triangle relationship together and creates or reveals the story of this relationship. In this episode, I share my excitement of the results of using this tool.
Monthly Focus: CLARITY
Last week’s episode introduced a new feature on the podcast: the monthly focus or theme and a weekly mission with some suggested questions to guide listeners.
The focus or theme I chose for the month of January is: Clarity. In last week’s episode I talked about the importance of clear space for clarity of thinking. I promised to offer weekly missions to help listeners discover clarity. Last week’s mission focused on clarity in our calendars.
Weekly Mission: Physical spaces
This week’s mission is to seek clarity about your physical spaces. By creating more clear physical space, we will be able to find and follow our trail easier with less distractions.
Here are some questions to help you find this clarity:
(1) What is my purpose in this space?
(2) Are there things in this space that will further my purpose or will the distract me from my purpose and get in the way?
(3) Are there things here that need to be returned to their proper homes, or do I need to find or create new homes for them?
(4) Can I declutter or simplify the things that occupy this space?
(5) Can I make a list of small tasks that I can perform when I find a minute here and there?
What I am Reading
Last week I finished reading two of the three books I started. I am adding two new books:
I will not be reading any fiction books this week until I have finished the above volumes and the third book from last week. I chose the above books because we can always learn and improve our habits, and because as teachers and parents it is important that we understand how children learn.
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Buy The Twinkle Project
You can also support the blog and podcast by making a purchase of The Twinkle Project, which is my book to help teachers and parents of young violin beginners. This book takes teachers and parents through all of the steps to teach a complete violin beginner all the way through the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” variations and begin the next steps to learn “Lightly Row.” Included in the book are many forms and checklists to guide teachers and parents through the progression of steps to learn this important initial stage to play the violin.
Episode 54, The Twinkle Project
If you have questions or answers or you would like to comment or leave me a voice mail, you can do so at (512) 537-6356. If you would like to send me an email, you may do so at paula@teachsuzuki.com. I welcome comments and questions about this episode and am interested in hearing about the perspective of other parents and teachers.
You may find more information and useful articles on my blog at: Teach Suzuki Blog.
Until next time,
Happy Practicing!
—– Paula —–
© 2019 by Paula E. Bird
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