teachers day is special not just for students but for teachers as well and musician jeanne merchant is all for it her over a decadelong journey as a western music vocal teacher has been an extremely fulfilling onevocal coaching is something ive been doing for 10 years now and have students who have accomplished so much the highlight being one of my students recently getting admission under my guidance and training into a prestigious university in new york city for a degree in musical theatre that was truly an honour for teachers every little and big achievement of their students mean a lotduring the lockdown too jeanne has been training her students for hours online ever since the lockdown and later the phased unlocks ive been teaching my students online its a whole different experience because where i once used to teach groups im now teaching individuals i literally train students from 12 noon to 12 midnight and have been able to look at each of these students needs individually we are using technology to the best of our ability to enable us to have a fairly interesting and comprehensive class despite not being able to physically meet each othershe has been facing and dealing with challenges of lags and connectivity while she enjoys her vocal sessions with the kids where they once enjoyed singing in a group and physically meeting and feeding off of each others talent and energy they now get to have all the attention on them individually so there are pros and cons to both ways of learning but we are all adapting and evolving and realised in the bargain that what we once thought would not possibly be a comprehensive and fulfilled learning environment has now actually proved to be an interesting and engaging experience she saysjeanne has won many awards performed at gigs worked with lilette dubey carl mendes and judged music awards too yet her time with her students is still precious to her