Prompt 4

The genius project has been going well for the past few weeks. The biggest improvement in the project was experiencing my student improving in piano by a great deal. I'm so proud that he has known nothing about piano or having any experience at all in the first week, to playing multiple songs in the next three. Nothing has gone haywire with my set plan, and I'm pretty sure my student is taking a great role on his part as well. I feel like as I'm nearing the end of the project that I have more things to work on such as percentage rates from the first week compared the each week and updating statistics and such things like that, but overall I'm going to have a great time with the project and I'm going to miss it in a sense that makes me feel both sad and satisfied.

Prompt 5

Hey everyone!

So far the project has been going well. i finally have all the statistics and data collected and I'm not going to have a video ready, but I am going to be giving a presentation of the data and comparing that to the very start of the first week that I taught piano. I'm actually super curious to see how many people put in so much work for their own genius project, so I think that not only is my project a priority, but maybe supporting others in their project as well is something that I could focus on. I'm pretty prepared, but I need to start practicing on how to present especially since I have my data all sussed out.

Prompt 6

Hey guys! It's another post again. Now that the genius project has officially ended, it's time to talk about some of the pros and cons to this project that I've dealt with so far. Throughout teaching piano to my students, I've learned that there's a wonderful feeling when your student finally realizes or understands the basic steps to actually playing. Some positive things that I found through my students' work were the ability to be persistent and carry that endurance to the last and final piece, which was the piece to playing songs on their own and integrating that feeling to being comfortable while playing. Through this, there were more positive changes that I saw. I conducted a study where for three weeks straight I will teach my student most of the steps applied to playing simple songs on the piano, then afterwards, I won't teach them for two weeks and see how their intelligence/ psychological skills play out. The weeks when I have taught my students consistently compared to the weeks without practice was such a huge difference based on skill level. Their emotional state/ physical state was worse compared to the weeks where they did integrate piano or have the sense of the feel of music in those three weeks.

For blog posting, I feel like I've been sorta lazy or haven't really caught up with it, but the detail is there. The reason why I haven't really been posting lately or being really thorough about posting is because the two weeks that I didn't teach, I haven't really done anything, I wasn't suppsed to necessarily do anything except have my data based on my student compared to when they come back and actually try playing like they used to just like what they did in the last other three weeks.