I prefer to take the "student first" approach to learning music. At the end of the day music is a passion before it is a discipline so I let the student determine what we cover, what the goals of lessons are, and most importantly the genre music we choose to focus on. I like teaching this way because it instills a desire to learn in each student rather than make guitar a box to check before the next lesson. That being said, there are no required textbooks or lesson homework outside of any material the student would like to take a deeper look into. This is opposing the usual methodology that many teachers use of "here's a music book let's look at these pages" because I don't believe we learn music that way. Music always starts as a pursuit of a hobby, so it should remain something that we enjoy learning, and picking up at the end of the day. The work I do with students is intended to reflect the initial passion and interest they had that drove them to take lessons in the first place.