Please demystify the "Sample lesson" situation

shennie
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:35:04 +0000

I’ll confess. I made all the contacts to arrange sample lessons. Why? I did it by phone calls for the most part. My kid was occupied 16 hours a day, which made return phone calls an issue. Second of all, I knew our schedule and what was possible and what wasn’t. All in all, it just seemed more efficient. When we went to the lessons, I (or my husband) sat in on them. I didn’t say anything or react to anything unless I was asked by the teacher, but for a variety of reasons, I felt that it was important for me to observe the teacher as well as my son. (Some of his sample lessons were experienced at summer programs and we were not involved in those.)

I was pretty low key through the process. Son had an excellent experience with his sample lessons and auditions. So don’t lose too much sleep K8sDad. We were NOT involved in grad school sample lessons and auditions except to provide financial support for travel.