Begin each lesson with a gentle five-minute warm-up—long tones, relaxed wrist and two-octave scales—like stretching before a delicious meal. Use the Faber Teacher Atlas to choose graded repertoire that balances technical studies and lyrical pieces. Spend fifteen minutes on technique (scales, arpeggios, Hanon-like exercises), twenty minutes on a main piece, and ten on sight-reading and theory from the Atlas. Encourage expressive phrasing, subtle rubato and rich tone; listen together to model recordings. Set weekly, achievable goals and a steady daily practice of thirty to forty minutes. Track progress in a journal and revisit repertoire.