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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Ronda actually teaches reading quite early to children. They learn to read music from flashcards early on, and they do a rhythm training book that is very frequently used at the conservatory level. Somewhere around book 2 level they start to do much more active reading. There should be no reason why her students don't have excellent reading skills.[/b]

I would say that some students who spend a LOT of time practicing have a significant delta between how well they play when they are intensely practiced, and how well they play when they are reading something for the first time, which can drive the impression of "better/worse reading at a given technical skill level".

Ronda's studio policies are designed for parents who are expecting that the violin is their child's primary extracurricular (starting from the very beginning) and that many of the kids will go on to play professionally. It's not so much top [i]talent[/i] as top [i]seriousness[/i]. She's ancient at this point in time and I really wonder how many more years she'll be teaching.

The Institute (GWSI) does not have solely teachers that she trained, but the ones that aren't are generally highly sought-after famous teachers  (like Terry Durbin).[/quote]

That's nothing compared to the sight-reading practice students in traditional methods receive, PP. That's what our Suzuki studio did too, because it's really become the new standard for Suzuki. You cannot teach both aural processing and sight-reading at a high level simultaneously to beginners, that's all there is to it. It's fine, as long as at some point they receive the other :-)
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