Custom Music Lessons Teacher Questionnaire (large version)
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1) What kind of training and teaching experience do you have?
2) What is your forte or specialty as it relates to music teaching?
3) Could you be flexible as to what you teach with regard to different songs in books or
on CDs that students want to learn?
4) How much skill do you have learning and playing by ear? Ideally, I am looking for
professional musicians to work with who don't need a lot of guidance.
In the case of piano teachers, however, you don’t need to be at a professional level as
many of our piano students are young children who just need a teacher to guide them
through method/primer books like Adventures, Bastien, Celebrations series or another
series a teacher prefers.
5) Would you be willing to do makeup lessons one day a month for students who give
you 24 hours notice of a missed lesson or at least call you the day they are sick? (a $5.00
makeup charge would apply if the student does not give you one day’s notice) Would you
be willing to do a free makeup lesson to students if they give you one days’ notice?
6) How are your organizational skills in terms of following up with new students/parents
to agree on lesson times and days and start dates and in setting up any makeup lessons
that have to be done for missed lessons?
7) If teaching in your home, would students be taught in their own area in your house,
away from distractions?
8) Do you have a waiting room for students in your house?
9) Would you be willing and able to travel to peoples' homes for lessons?
10) How many students (typically half hour lessons) would you be willing to teach and
on what days and at what times?
11) As a teacher working with Custom Music Lessons would you be willing to commit
10 months, from the beginning of September to the end of June?
12) Would forwarding your fees to you on the 30th of everything month be fine?
13) Would you be willing to talk once a week about how the lessons are going, about any
problem students, or about any attendance problems etc.?
14) Do you have an answering machine where students can reach you when you are
teaching or when you are away?
15) To you, what makes a good teacher? What is your teaching philosophy?
16) With quite a few teachers wanting to help us, why should I subcontract work out to
you instead of to others? What do you have to offer to make music teaching a successful
endeavor?
17) Since most of our teaching is done with entry-level beginners, the teaching itself is
not highly demanding and so it’s more personality-based with the students, and much of
the success depends on the rapport between teacher and student. How good are you with
children and in general with all people?
18) Do you smoke or does anyone in your home smoke?
19) Please list three references including phone numbers.
20) Do you have a cell phone students can reach you?
21) Do you have any pets if students come to your home for lessons?
22) How much per hour would you need to make it worthwhile to teach?