Practice Makes Perfect!

Your Mom, band director, baseball coach and teachers all told you, "Practice makes perfect!" as a way to get you to practice what you have learned. And as much as we hate to admit it, they were right. The more we practiced on our own the better we were when it came time to show what we knew - whether on the field, in the performance hall or in the classroom.

The Practices in each Lesson of your course have the same goal. They provide a way for you try out what was covered in the lesson on your own. Most practices in our courses are designed to be a problem for you to solve with the skills you have learned or are a description of a project you are to complete to apply what you have learned. In most cases there is only one answer or the steps you need to follow are fairly well spelled out for you in the course materials.

But don't feel like you are on your own or you have to produce perfect work on the first try. Your instructor will be glad to give you feedback on what you have done or offer suggestions on where to head next. The practice is set up so you can turn in the work more than once, so keep working until you get it right!

And once your Practice is perfect - move onto the show - your Assignment! Show off just what you know - but more on that next time.

posted by Winona Winslow @ 4:50 PM