What does my tuition pay for?
The tuition fee that you pay covers more than just the actual lesson time. Your tuition payments are allocated over a specific number of weeks’ worth of activities, not just the individual lesson time. For every hour enrolled in piano lessons, you are actually investing at least two hours of the teacher's time.
Much time is also spent outside of the studio, doing the following:
• Planning curriculum and acquiring music for each student
• Attending meetings, workshops and courses to continually improve teaching skills
• Listening and evaluating music and studying interpretations. This sometimes involves attendance at concerts and other live performances
• Performing organisational tasks involved with exams, recitals, competitions, auditions, and other performance events
Where does your tuition money go?
• First of all, your tuition pays for the teacher’s time spent with your student in lessons, performance classes and rehearsals, as well as time spent at recitals, exams and competitions. Your tuition also pays for your teacher’s training, experience and expertise.
• Around 30% of the money coming in goes out for expenses. Examples of these costs are: recital expenses, gifts and awards, certificates, repairs and maintenance of pianos and the studio, software, incentive programs and prizes, professional membership dues, materials, postage, and normal operating expenses any small business incurs (i.e. phone, internet, electricity, printing).
• Memberships of pedagogical/teaching organisations and websites, including Curious Piano Teachers, Vibrant Music Teaching and Supersonics Plus
• Continuing education such as conferences, courses and workshops help keep me current on methods and techniques of teaching and playing
• Purchasing music online, which has become more and more of a necessity, incurs postage charges that are not passed on to the student when billing for books.
Much time is also spent outside of the studio, doing the following:
• Planning curriculum and acquiring music for each student
• Attending meetings, workshops and courses to continually improve teaching skills
• Listening and evaluating music and studying interpretations. This sometimes involves attendance at concerts and other live performances
• Performing organisational tasks involved with exams, recitals, competitions, auditions, and other performance events
Where does your tuition money go?
• First of all, your tuition pays for the teacher’s time spent with your student in lessons, performance classes and rehearsals, as well as time spent at recitals, exams and competitions. Your tuition also pays for your teacher’s training, experience and expertise.
• Around 30% of the money coming in goes out for expenses. Examples of these costs are: recital expenses, gifts and awards, certificates, repairs and maintenance of pianos and the studio, software, incentive programs and prizes, professional membership dues, materials, postage, and normal operating expenses any small business incurs (i.e. phone, internet, electricity, printing).
• Memberships of pedagogical/teaching organisations and websites, including Curious Piano Teachers, Vibrant Music Teaching and Supersonics Plus
• Continuing education such as conferences, courses and workshops help keep me current on methods and techniques of teaching and playing
• Purchasing music online, which has become more and more of a necessity, incurs postage charges that are not passed on to the student when billing for books.