Confusing your students not only won’t help them but if it ends up impacting their learning negatively, it may also be harmful to your career and damage your professional reputation.

Sounds pretty obvious right?

However, there are plenty out there who are easily impressed by just how clever someone can be. As teachers and coaches, confusing others in an attempt to impress never works.

Inspiration is one thing but being a smarty pants doesn’t help anyone.

If your students do well then so will your career as a voice specialist, obvious again right? Then how do we avoid the confusion with someone who may be coming to all this at an early stage?

Clarity is key.

The language used, terminology and references to other things and people can all be and mean different things to different people.

How do we know that a student is thinking of the same thing when we for example use terms like ‘dark, head, mix, operatic or belt.’ They may base their understanding on what someone else has said, how can we know what the understanding of that someone else is?