Why Student Showcases Rock
Tangible Goal
Showcases provide a tangible goal to work towards. In having a set date and a pre-planned performance selection, your student learns how to manage their practice time and what it feels like to polish and perfect a piece.
Opportunity to Succeed
Show that You Value Music
Motivates Progress
Student Showcases provide a chance for your student (and you!) to reflect upon where they’ve “come from” when watching beginning students. Progress on an instrument can sometimes feel slow, but watching younger students perform gives reminders of the gains they have made and motivates them to continue to progress.
Tangible Goal
Showcases provide a tangible goal to work towards. In having a set date and a pre-planned performance selection, your student learns how to manage their practice time and what it feels like to polish and perfect a piece.
Opportunity to Succeed
Showcases provide an opportunity to feel successful. Learning an instrument requires many, many hours of solo practice. Performing gives your student the recognition they deserve for their hard-work.
Seeing Peers Perform
Opportunity to Share
Student Showcases provide a chance for your extended family to be involved in your child’s piano education. Athletes get all the glory… everyone comes to watch soccer games but no one really heads over to watch a music practice session! Involving grandparents and aunties and uncles in the Showcase audience gives your student an opportunity to share their hard work with the ones they love.
Experience and Overcome Nervousness
Showcases provide a chance for your student to experience nervousness… and to realize that those feelings are okay. We like to protect our children from feeling uncomfortable, but in “real life” these feelings are part-and-parcel of being human. Early experiences with successfully conquering nerves gives children confidence.
Provide Genuine Praise
Student Showcases provide an opportunity for genuine and heart-felt praise. Bring on the photos and videos and big hugs and flushed-face smiles. Clap enthusiastically. Let your student know just how much you recognize their efforts and watch their commitment to musical lessons soar.
Practice Performing in Front of a Crowd
Showcases provide a chance for your student to practice public speaking and to gain confidence in front of a group; two skills that will serve your student well in many other areas of his or her life. Speaking and performing in a safe environment means that your student gains important experience in front of a crowd. The earlier these experiences happen, the easier it becomes for your student as they enter adolescence and adulthood.