all instruments

• don't go too fast, take your time and get to know the students

• teach some easy preludes to start with, and a beginner scale

• start sight reading in lesson 1,2 or 3, but go easy on this, and tell the student it is quite hard

• finish off  the lesson by talking about or trying to play a piece that the student likes

• tell the student to bring some ideas of their own to try next week

• tell the student to try to practise regularly, in smaller timeslots if need

• keep a brief record of your lessons

• develop your own style of teaching and playing

• contribute your own ideas to the teaching, use the bach2roq resources as a guide, but do not limit yourself to this.

• treat all your students as individuals; it is hard to have a formula that works for everybody

guitar

• it is a good idea to start on on chords and preludes, but not so much scales in the first few weeks

piano

• start with simples note exercises (eg find the c, etc...) then prelude 3

• start sight reading from week 1