Track Student Progress For 20 Weeks With This Assessment Tool

As a piano teacher, you likely give lessons to at least 10 students and as many as 60 students. With that many kids coming to your studio every week, it is almost impossible to accurately track progress without using an assessment tool.

While you may know how a single student is performing in any given lesson, it is difficult to know how that student performed two weeks ago, five weeks ago, or twenty weeks ago.

And yet, student progress is at the heart of every successful studio.

It is essential that piano teachers know if their students are making good progress, making slow progress, or making no progress at all.

Today we are sharing a 20-Week Piano Student Assessment Tool that you can use every week to track the ongoing progress of your piano students.

Why Student Assessments Matter To Your Studio

Piano student assessments are an often-neglected aspect of piano lessons. And yet, they can be the single most important factor in the growth of a student and in the growth of your studio.

Too often, we create lesson plans based on a student’s progression through a piano book. Each week, we simply turn the page to a new piece and get started.

But ticking off pages or crossing off songs is not the most effective way to teach piano lessons.

Instead, the activities in every lesson should be tailored to the needs of the individual student. And the only way to determine the needs of an individual student is through individual assessments.

Our teaching should always be guided by assessments… not what comes next in a piano book.

Of course, this is not to say that progressing through a piano book is wrong. What is wrong, however, is progressing through a piano book without taking the time to find out if your student is comprehending the musical skills being learned.

Through piano student assessments, teachers can uncover areas of need and then search out supplementary material to meet these needs.

Using Our 20-Week Piano Student Assessment Tool

We know that you have to cram a million different things into a 30-minute lesson. For this reason, we created today’s assessment tool to be completed in just one minute.

To begin, print out multiple copies of the assessment tool (see download instructions below) and place them in your teaching binder.

Each week, at the end of a student’s lesson, read the different assessment descriptors and then color in the week’s corresponding boxes according to the legend.

For example, on Week 1 if your student is approaching expectations for note reading, you will color the Week 1 box in the “Note Reading” row, green. If your student is exceeding expectations for rhythm, you would color the Week 1 box in the “Rhythm” row, red.

As the weeks progress and the boxes become colored, a quick glance at your assessment tool will tell you if a student is making progress, losing progress, or standing still. You can then adjust your selection of teaching materials and methods accordingly or can check in with parents if needed.

Before You Download Today’s Resource

You can download today’s printable below, but before you get to that…

If you want to make sure your students continue to make progress you’ll want to make sure you’re using the WunderKeys Method Books.

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Download Today’s Piano Student Assessment Tool

Click on the image below to download our 20-Week Piano Student Assessment Tool.

And if you’re looking for more printables, remember to check out our free Teach Piano Today Homework Pages