Private solo lessons – how to get the most out of them. So you’ve finally been asked to represent your studio doing a solo, or maybe you are a seasoned soloist wondering how to get the edge over your competitors. Private solo lessons have the…
Category: Dance Teacher Tools
Teaching teenagers ballet – the challenge I know we’ve all been there. We love ballet, we love teaching, but then, you are suddenly faced with the class from hell….Teen Ballet. The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out how on earth…
Teaching Dance and setting goals I am all about teaching my students to set goals, breaking their big goals down into mini goals and then making a plan to achieve them. However, when it came to me setting goals for my classes, I wasn’t always…
As a dance teachers we all set goals for our students. We set goals for the lesson, for the term, for the year. This is great, but, even greater is if we can also teach our students how to set and be responsible for achieving…
Dance and the power of YET – helping your dance students succeed with a growth mindset As dance teachers, some of our most powerful tools are the words we use in the classroom. Carol Dweck’s research on the power of believing you can, shows how…
Growth Mindset and dance – a powerful tool for teachers. You may have heard the term growth mindset and we all understand praise – but what do they mean for our work with young dancers, what is the relationship between growth mindset and dance? As…
