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.
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.
Click here or on the cover above to learn more.
Click here or on the cover above to learn more.
Click here or on the cover above to learn more.
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
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Hi Nan! Whenever we add to the homework pages and send you the email about it, we include the password in the email. See if you can find one of those emails in your inbox or just email me andrea@teachpianotoday.com 🙂
Can you say what you mean by “fluency” please? Do you mean that the music sounds like the student worked on it a lot and got it up to full speed, confident, accurate?
Fluency (to me) means that the performance of the piece is up to tempo without fluctuations, is accurate, and includes phrasing and expression 🙂