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Student retention. How many lessons do students take? (All Teachers)
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Absolutely, specifically what stats would you be interested in know?
For example:
The average number of lessons that you teach to students? (Show average life-cycle)
Currently how many students you teach have been taking lessons for less than 12 months, less than 24 months and more than 36 months.
What questions would you ask of the data if you had it in front of you?
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How many students are of a certain age and gender? How many of them practice?! Lol
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approximately 55% female, 45% male
I have different methods when it comes to practicing based on what other activities they do, e.g. after school clubs or work, etc.
If it is a beginner I encourage a student (especially a child) to practice 2 times a week for approximately 10 minutes. In my opinion, and especially for a beginner, this does not appear too long and students may not pick up ‘bad’ habits if practising longer.
However, I have one student who currently practices 21 times a week and prefers the quantity of practice times. I have built my lessons around him encouraging him to work on small sections at a time so when he practices he looks at specific sections. In reality, when he practices he probably practices about 1 minute each time he moves to the piano.
I have had one student where dad insisted that he practices 60 minutes everyday (at Grade 1). I told him to half the practice time and to practice every other day. He’ll still end up practicing and I said to dad that it was important that he did not resent going to the piano.
I believe all my students practice apart from 2 or 3 students as I want them to believe that when they practice (2 times a week for 10 minutes) that this is achievable. If this was not achievable then they would lose motivation to practice. -
I love this!!
21 times though… wow! If only I had such discipline in my own practice!
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Unfortunately, collecting age and gender of students wouldn’t be possible as we wouldn’t be able to collect that type of data on a national level. All the data would be generated at the enquiry stage and asking for gender and age is more prohibitive to quick enquiries, so it would have to be collected by teachers on a case by case basis. Questions that might be possible to answer is the number of times a student has taken a lesson, how frequently those lessons are and the average number of lessons a student will take before they stop taking lessons – all of this could be done by counting the number of occurrences of a students name in the lessons record database and reformating that data into a useful output.
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