How many students you taught was interested

[braintist]

Ok honestly how many...
Lack of interest is a major downfall in learning somthing.

[go12_3]

  The students that I have now are interested, I hope, and they keep coming for their lessons.

best wishes,

go12_3

[jgallag]

Should we perhaps examine "why?" instead of "how many?" Is it not part of your job as a paid teacher to bring interest and excitement to the lesson? Why should they keep paying you and coming back if you can't interest them?

[anfauvelle]

About a third of mine are personally interested.  Half of those are in the "Honeymoon" stage of learning and the other half have finally learned how to sight read with comparative ease or can sight read OK but improvise beautifully. 

Another third (maybe a little more than a third) are a little interested but are mostly carried along by the enthusiam of me or their parents. I hope this group eventually joins the first group.

The last group, with no interest, has discovered either the opposite sex, peer pressure, or that they are much better at a particular sport.  Their playing sounds  like they are trying to text and drive at the same time. YUK!

[cjp_piano]

I only teach students who are interested

[nanabush]

It's about 2/3 of interest for me.  It's very hard to tell with young beginners; kids who are 4 or 5 will do as they're told; they always have pretty easy going personalities and will try anything you throw at them 

I kind of 'trick' some of my students in a sense lol. The ones who started early enough to be able to get a grade 12 high school credit for piano, and  use it for university, are pretty keen on getting the exams done and possibly having an easier last year of high school.  So I'd say all the kids who are learning pieces for exams are pretty into it.  Kids who are learning pop and classical are playing a pretty large variety, and really enjoy it.  All of my adult students are there for their own leisure, so obviously have to be interested to a degree.

The one's I have who aren't interested are the ones who play random stuff, don't want to do exams, have no musical preference whatsoever, have parents who often forget to take them to piano, forget to pick up books, don't want to buy books, etc.  These are usually the kids who are 8-12.  The preteens who just don't care, don't open up to the teacher, low energy, always seem bored no matter what.  It's tedious teaching them, because you know that they really don't care at all.

[Bob]

Not too many.

[gyzzzmo]

I'm in the lucky situation that i can select my own students. And if i get contacted by a parent, i start a decent chat with the kid first to be sure i'm not about to teach some forced kid.

[go12_3]

I'm having trouble with a 8 year old student that appears not to be interested....being lazy or what.  She had lessons with me for a year and was interested....so I am getting drained in teaching her each week now....I think I am loosing interest in teaching this student!!!
I wonder if a piano teacher looses interest.....

best wishes,

go12_3

[antichrist]

just play moonlight mov 3 / liszt alkan thalberg godowsky in front of em