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Successful Dance Educators
By Rhee
Gold
It’s always
good to remind ourselves what makes us good at what we do.
Below is an excerpt from The Complete Guide to Teaching
Dance that I think does just that. Please be sure to hand
it out to your whole faculty and have a great season. –Rhee
Successful Dance Educators . . .
·
Have a
genuine love for children.
·
Bring out
the best in their students by motivating and inspiring them.
·
Enter the
classroom free of personal distraction, giving total focus to
their students.
·
Sense and
respond to the individual needs of each student.
·
Always have
the welfare of the student in mind.
·
Know what
is physically appropriate for their dancers.
·
Select
age-appropriate music and choreography.
·
Understand
that each student is an individual with something to offer.
·
Maintain
control of their classes by disciplining, engaging, and
directing their students.
·
Encourage
students to learn from each other.
·
Build
variety – in music, presentation, orientation, structure, even
guest teachers – into their classes.
·
Continue
their own educational process, in order to offer the best and
most up-to-date technical training to their students.
·
Appreciate
and respect their fellow dance educators.
·
Stand up
for their beliefs or studio policies.
·
Believe
that teaching dance is about passing on an art form.
·
Aspire to
be the best educator they can be.
·
Understand
that the value of dance is far greater than awards, trophies,
or honors.
·
Want to be
doing exactly what they’re doing.
From The
Complete Guide to Teaching Dance, by Rhee Gold. ©2004 Rhee
Gold.
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