Teacher Time Saver: Scales Binder

My system for all sorts of scales
is housed in this groovy binder.

Piano teachers, don't you think it can be a challenge to fit everything you want to do into a 30-minute lesson slot? We need ways to save precious time, and here's one idea I came up with for scales. Rather than writing out the scale notes and fingerings by hand (as I used to), I use pre-printed scale blocks and glue them onto assignment sheets. What am I talking about? Here are a few pages from inside the binder:

I have major and minor pentascales beginning on white keys, and all 24 major and minor octave scales individually stored in pockets throughout the binder. I print out sheets of each scale, cut out the blocks, and refill the pockets as needed. Each week, the current scale is adhered to a page in the student's assignment book like this:

If I want the student to write his/her scale out, there is staff paper for that purpose on the reverse of each assignment sheet.