"What's In It For Me?"

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Woody's "What's In It For Me?"

The information below provides ideas for setting up Woody's Piano Circle™ lessons.

Private Music Teachers

Enjoy Flexibility

You are your own boss!!

  • Set yourself up at home if you have a space large enough to set up some keyboards – a spare room, a living area, a lounge room, rent a room – ask the local primary school or Club
  • Lessons will work with any number of students but the more students you have the more you earn
  • You decide:
    • How many students you'd like to work with, eg. 1, 4, 8, 10, more?
    • The lesson fee/student $10 -$12 - $15 -$? (see suggestions below).
    • The length of the lessons 30/40/? minutes.
    • The number of classes you wish to run per day/week.
  • No additional lesson preparation: all the lesson plans are complete but flexible enough for you to infuse your own personality
  • Possibility of using a mix of keyboards and chromatic glockenspiels if preferred (this works very well)
Easy Fee Management
  • Parents pay by the term – 10 lessons- at the beginning of the term.
  • Parents pay the Book Fee for the Students Books and Woody Bag.
  • Teacher pays the annual Licensing Agreement fees to Woody's Music Education Administration before lessons commence.
  • Teacher signs the Licensing Agreement documentation before lessons can commence.
  • Teacher forwards the Book Fee to Woody's Music Education Administration – books and bags will be forwarded on receipt of payment.
Training and Support
  • Woody's Music Education Administration conducts 4 Woody's Teacher Accreditation Workshops over 2 years covering the 20 units.
  • Woody's Administration provides teacher resources including comprehensive teaching manuals with lesson plans and teaching ideas and methods, 24/7 support, backing tracks for all fun songs and piano/keyboard pieces, written chorded piano accompaniments for all songs and pieces, teaching aids including Woody puppet and stand, Woody rhythm flash cards, a set of Woody music Wall Charts, class set of laminated Woody Paper Keyboards, class set of Woody's Note Fun for treble and bass clef, 150 x 16mm music note buttons and online unit reviews.
Possible Scenarios For Weekly Lessons
No. of Students 10 10 10 8 8 8
Lesson Costs $10 $12 $15 $10 $12 $15
Income per 30mins $100 $120 $150 $80 $96 $120
Income per Term $1,000 $1,200 $1,500 $800 $960 $1,200

10 lessons per term with 4 terms per year

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The potential income for an individual teacher is totally an individual decision:

  • you could do 1 class a day or 1 class a week, or
  • you could do 2/3/4 classes a day or 2/3/4/classes a week.

At one 30 minute class per day teaching 5 days a week with 10 students at $15 for 1 term – 10 weeks for 4 terms means $30,000 annual gross income – this is only one example.

There is more detailed information throughout this website, and may also be obtained from us via the Contact Us page.

Ideas for Venues
  • Many primary schools have a suitable space that could be rented for a few hours a week and most probably already have some keyboards and percussion – it's worth asking
    • Primary schools are always looking for extra funds so they could turn a spare space into some income
    • Suggest paying $1 per student per class for rent of the space
    • Maybe ask to use the music room when it is free
    • Lessons could be during school time and students come out of their normal classes
    • Lessons could be before school, after school or at lunch times or even weekends
  • Other possible venues: the local hall, local Church, local Community Centre or local Club

Schools

Extra Income For Your School

Woody's Piano Circle courses:

  • piano/keyboard groups are a very positive way to earn some extra income without any actual cost to the school,
  • are an excellent promotion for the school and can be used in promotional advertising,
  • offer enormous educational benefits for students,
  • are an excellent year 1 and 2 music programme for classroom music (refer to the “Home” page for more details),
  • are an excellent feeder for future instrumental students in your Instrumental programme,
  • offer students an excellent grounding in basic music fundamentals thus encouraging them to continue their music studies on a solo instrument whether it be piano, woodwind, strings, brass or percussion, and
  • are loved by instrumental teachers as Woody's students know all the basic work and the can concentrate on learning instrumental technique.
Structural Options and Flexibility
  • Schools can allow an individual music teacher to set up group piano/keyboard lessons and pay the school a rental fee – the individual teacher does all their own administration and pays the school a negotiated fee.
  • Alternately the school can purchase the Woody's Music Education Licensing Agreement and control the administration, signing their Licensing Agreement before classes commence.
  • The course also works very well with a mix of keyboards and chromatic glockenspiels.
  • Teachers will have no additional lesson preparation: all the lesson plans are complete but flexible enough for individual teachers to infuse their own personality.
Easy Fee Management
  • Piano/Keyboard groups the parents pay by the term before lessons commence.
  • Classroom programme the school pays the Licensing Fee before lessons commence.
  • Parents pay the additional Book Fee for the Student Books and Woody Bag and this is forwarded to Woody's Music Education before lessons commence.
Training and Support
  • Woody's Music Education Administration conducts 4 Woody's Teacher Accreditation Workshops over 2 years covering the 20 units.
  • Woody's Administration provides teacher resources including comprehensive teaching manuals with lesson plans and teaching ideas and methods, 24/7 support, backing tracks for all fun songs and piano/keyboard pieces, written chorded piano accompaniments for all songs and pieces, teaching aids including Woody puppet and stand, Woody rhythm flash cards, a set of Woody music Wall Charts, class set of laminated Woody Paper Keyboards, class set of Woody's Note Fun for treble and bass clef, 150 x 16mm music note buttons and online unit reviews.
Additional Information

There is more detailed information throughout this website, and may also be obtained from us via the Contact Us page.

Possible Scenarios For Weekly Lessons
No. of Students 10 10 10 8 8 8
Lesson Costs $10 $12 $15 $10 $12 $15
Income per 30mins $100 $120 $150 $80 $96 $120
Income per Term $1,000 $1,200 $1,500 $800 $960 $1,200

10 lessons per term with 4 terms per year

If 1 teacher conducted 5 music lessons per week with 10 students at $2 per student rent for the space x 40 lessons per year the extra income to the school would be $4000. This is only 1 example.

Music Retailers

Do you run a music school?

Extra Income For Your Business

Advantages of running a music school as part of your retail business:

  • Increase customer flow and extend customer target group.
  • Increase future music and instrument sales – all Woody's students in these groups must have a keyboard to practise on at home.
  • Offer excellent promotional opportunities.

Woody's Piano Circle courses:

  • are an opportunity to offer something unique and educationally sound,
  • offer reliability and high standards with fully trained teachers,
  • are an excellent feeder as future instrumental students,
  • offer students an excellent grounding in basic music fundamentals thus encouraging them to continue their music studies on a solo instrument whether it be piano/keyboard, woodwind, strings, brass or percussion, and
  • are loved by instrumental teachers as Woody's students know all the basic work and the can concentrate on learning instrumental technique.
Structural Options and Flexibility
  • Retailers can allow an individual music teacher to set up, conduct lessons and pay the shop a rental fee – the individual teacher does all their own administration and pays the retailer a negotiated fee.
  • Alternately the retailer can purchase the Woody's Music Education Licensing Agreement and control the administration, signing their Licensing Agreement before classes commence.
  • The course also works very well with a mix of keyboards and chromatic glockenspiels.
  • Teachers will have no additional lesson preparation: all the lesson plans are complete but flexible enough for individual teachers to infuse their own personality.
Easy Fee Management
  • Parents pay by the term/semester – business owner's decision.
  • Parents pay the additional Book Fee for the Student Books and Woody Bag and this is forwarded to Woody's Music Education before lessons commence.
  • Retailer pays teacher a negotiated set fee.
Training and Support
  • Woody's Music Education Administration conducts 4 Woody's Teacher Accreditation Workshops over 2 years covering the 20 units.
  • Woody's Administration provides teacher resources including comprehensive teaching manuals with lesson plans and teaching ideas and methods, 24/7 support, backing tracks for all fun songs and piano/keyboard pieces, written chorded piano accompaniments for all songs and pieces, teaching aids including Woody puppet and stand, Woody rhythm flash cards, a set of Woody music Wall Charts, class set of laminated Woody Paper Keyboards, class set of Woody's Note Fun for treble and bass clef, 150 x 16mm music note buttons and online unit reviews.
Additional Information

There is more detailed information throughout this website, and may also be obtained from us via the Contact Us page.

Possible Scenarios For Weekly Lessons
No. of Students 10 10 10 8 8 8
Lesson Costs $10 $12 $15 $10 $12 $15
Income per 30mins $100 $120 $150 $80 $96 $120
Income per Term $1,000 $1,200 $1,500 $800 $960 $1,200

10 lessons per term with 4 terms per year