During the holiday season, teachers receive gifts from students, and the search engine can help you keep track of what you received from which student.
In the student lesson notes section, I write xmas-gift, followed by the gift received in the private notes section. If I just type xmas, a search will pull out any lesson notes with the word xmas in it. As some of my students learn Christmas music during this time of year, I have the word xmas in many lesson notes.
After the holidays are over, you can go to the Lesson History under the Lesson tab, and search for xmas-gifts. This search will give you a list of all the students that gave you a gift during the holidays. Quite helpful.
I also use this technique to enter particular grades, whether weekly, monthly or quarterly. I precede the grade with an astrick *. An example of a grade is *10. A search for * will pull up the student grades.
There are many uses for the search engine that will enable MTH to work even harder for you. On the bright side, you don’t have to give MTH a raise for taking on more responsibility and work.
What creative ways do you use for the search engine?
About the Author
Ronnie Currey teaches guitar, bass guitar, piano and voice to over forty private students. He is also the the Music Teacher's Helper Director of Member Services as well as the editor for the blog and newsletter.
Ronnie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee moving to the Denver area from Atlanta in 2000. Upon his arrival to Colorado Ronnie was hired by a Denver computer company as a sales executive, and within three months, promoted to manager. After nine months residing in Denver, Ronnie had signed up thirty private music students by leaving pamphlets at a local music store, and had to resign from his computer job. He currently teach between 40 and 45 students on guitar, piano, bass guitar and voice.
At age 8 Ronnie started piano lessons, and by 12 years old, he became a church organist and choir director for a 300 member church. When Beatlemania hit at age 14, he was motivated to learn guitar and bass guitar while continuing with piano lessons. Ronnie started teaching guitar and piano students at age 16 and attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he received a B.S. degree in Music Education and Psychology. In 2004 he received a teaching license and certification in music K-12 from the Colorado Department of Education. Ronnie has taught technolgy and music in the Douglas County School District in the Denver metro area since 2002.
by T. Scarborough — Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
I grade on performance. I will take off for a student who did not bring their music. A 3.0 is good, and my expectation. 2.0 is for a performance of lesson material that is less than my expectation, and 1.0 is for students that did not practice and need to repeat the assignment.
by Ronnie Currey — Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
by Ronald Still — Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 11:43 am