This is great advice. I do this with all of my students. I also sit down with them before the instruction starts and talk to them about what we'll be doing that day so they know what they are going to do. One other thing I do applies if the student has a flight simulator. I will give them "homework". I will tell them what they need to work on with the simulator in between our training sessions at the field. I've found that this alone will greatly reduce the training time for a student, it lets them work out things they are having problems on without using a drop of fuel. I have an a copy RealFlight that I will loan to students if they don't have a copy of their own yet.

Ken