Piano Teachers Association.

[ingagroznaya]

...or whatever is the name of our professional union.

From what I understand - in my area teachers must attend one meeting every three months to keep the membership active ( besides paying the dues, of course ). How am I supposed to do it, if I am teaching on that day? Should I cancel lessons? Give up my income? Canceling lessons every three months seems silly and impractical.

Members which I talked to, don't seems to have many students, so they can afford the luxury of drinking tea with other teachers on Wed. night.

How do you handle it, if you are teaching full time?

[lostinidlewonder]

We started our association with private music teachers. We have 14 professional teachers only (a number of part time ones) so it is a small group and varying intruments, but the network contained is well over 1000 people. We use this when we do student concert events, we can fill the seats no problems, it is basically for this reason that we started up this guild It is slowly growing so I can only imagine after 20 years it will be something to contend with without even trying! People pay membership fees but this covers concert venue costs, so we have seats sold before the event even is announced.

Theres no real need to be part of any major association unless you feel you need to use it to get business.