DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:

• Practice challenge chart for each student that includes space to track 28 days of practice

• A poster for your studio that includes space for up to 39 students and 20 days of practice

• PDF download: Print or use digitally on your iPad

How Practice Challenges Benefit Your Students

• Help students stay on track when preparing for a recital or other performance

• Get students back into the swing of things after a break or at the beginning of the piano year

• Promote consistency in practicing

• Friendly competition

• Require more practicing than some students would normally accomplish on their own

• Some students thrive on being challenged

• Grouping students together can promote teamwork to be successful in the challenge

• Promote responsibility and accountability

• Help build internal motivation over time

• Show students they are more capable than they may have thought

• Encourage creativity in practice time (fitting in a few extra minutes before school, after dinner, etc.)

How To Host A Practice Challenge

The Rules Of The Practice Challenge

• Our challenge is one month long

• For practice challenges that are based around minutes practiced, students fill in a circle on their chart for each day they meet their goal

• My students are required to practice, for example, at least 20 minutes a day, for 5 days each week during the challenge.

• If they meet that goal, they will make it through level 2 and complete the studio poster.

• Some students love a challenge, so on the individual charts I include a Level 3, which means practicing 28 days out of the month

• Students who meet the goals of the challenge (and goals do change for each challenge) will get to select prizes after completing each level, and if they make it through level 3, the grand prize is a gift card of their choosing!

• I check their practice minutes (or goals, pages, tempo, etc.) during their lesson and provide praise, encouragement, motivation, or whatever my student needs throughout the challenge.

• Students love to see their progress add up on the chart through the month, and making the goals slightly more attainable for the studio wide challenge is a great confidence booster!

Host Your Own Practice Challenge

• Download a set of practice challenge charts:

• Print them and give them to your students. I like to print them onto white card stock.

• If you’re teaching 100% online, you may email the charts to your students and have them print the charts.

• Share the rules of the challenge with your students and their parents.

• Let the challenge begin!