Delta is mostly doing practices well recently (but not always) - using a variety approach. His group lessons seem to go pretty good with him doing what he is supposed to. But individual lessons are NOT going well, so he isn't getting taught anything new at all, and has been stuck at the same point pretty much all year. His instructor is supposed to be one of the best ones available (I have heard this from a few sources.)
Anyway, his instructor called, as it was obvious we needed to talk without any listening ears. She is having us try to do a practice for the lesson next week.... so basically, she is going to sit back and say nothing, and I'm going to try to have Delta do a practice at her place while she observes. She basically told me on the phone that she is baffled. Although she has had other students in the past do similar things (refusing to do the lesson, etc) - that the techniques that she uses to get past that just isn't working for my son. So as the practices are going better most of the time than the lesson, she is hoping to figure out a way to get the lessons moving smoother.
Hopefully he will co-operate with me during the practice - we had one of our best practices in a long time yesterday, and I'm hoping that the one for the teacher might go as well.... I'm really hoping we can get a breakthrough happening. That is where we are at. I am really hoping that we can get him to doing Twinkles before the end of the year, because 2 years of being a pre-twinkler is really hard on us - and it may make it really hard to convince my husband that it is worth the money for next year!
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