Sceptical of my teacher assigned pieces.

[shina_0]

Hi guys,
I'm a beginner with one year of experience with piano. Recently I joined a teacher with two classes a week. He assigns me pieces and scales and exercises to learn. He made me go through bunch of beginner level pieces around 20 of them. All miniature pieces. Which took me a month to finish. Then proceeded to assign me more pieces to learn. The following are the pieces he assigned in their chronological order.
1 spinning song
2 Invention in F major - Bach
3 spring song - Mendellson (simplified version)
4 Norwegian Dance no 2 - Greig (Solo piano version - original)

The problem now is that I've told theteacher that I'm not able to get the piece quite upto tempo. But he asked me to practice scales and I'll be able to learn this piece eventually. Is this the norm when teaching. The norwegian dance is a huge leap from my current level of playing.

[dizzyfingers]

May I ask how old you are, about?
Assuming you're an adult ...
You should talk to your teacher about what your goals are as a piano student..
Perhaps you are a full time working adult, and you just want to learn piano at a leisurely pace, to enjoy practicing, and enjoy the pieces...
You should also feel empowered to talk to your teacher about the work load or difficulty of a piece - if it is causing you stress, if you feel overwhelmed, etc.

In 12 or 16 months you should evaluate this teacher (for yourself), to determine if things are going well, according to how you want them to go.  You can probably find piano teacher evaluation criteria online, try a google search or chatbot.

Be Empowered.  You're the manager of your life, no one else is.