SEMINARS FOR DANCE TEACHERS

"Professional development for dance teachers"
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Seminar notes with interactive exercises

A COMPLETE TRAINING SEMINAR, SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR DANCE TEACHERS AND DANCE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.

"Professional development for dance teachers"

Teachers play many roles in helping students develop. Sometimes a mentor, often a counsellor and always a performance coach. How to understand these roles, perform them effectively and enhance your own skills as a teacher.

Contents

If I were to ask you to list all of the different kinds of ways in which you help your students, you’d probably be able to fill many pages. These are some of the likely answers:

… and so many more, I’m sure. Does all this sound familiar to you?

Dance teachers really are multi-skilled, or at least they need to be, to be able to give their students the very best help possible.

Do you ever feel that you could have handled a particular situation better? Or that you avoided confronting a student’s problem, because you didn’t feel you had the skills or the experience to do so?

This seminar cannot give you experience – you will gain that in time. But we can look at certain well-established skills and techniques, which people in different walks of life use when interacting with others. This can be an employer or manager, dealing with an employee, an adult advising a friend, a teacher helping a student, or any one of lots of different types of interaction. The one thing is common with all these situations is that there is a problem to be overcome, and that the "adviser" has experience of confronting this kind of problem or has learned skills to enable him/her to be able to analyse the problem and present possible solutions.

In this seminar, we look at three types of technique in particular:

There are also related topics, which are addressed:

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