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Is there a teaching course plan or guide out there somewhere, or do you all make up your own as you go along?
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Re: teaching course plan???
Mon, December 22, 2008 - 7:33 AMWell I plan each course individually, to suit what I need/want to teach my students within each course.
I have seen some course outlines online, but unless you know that teacher's teaching methods and vocabulary, it may not be terribly useful to you. -
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Mon, December 22, 2008 - 2:41 PMIf you are wanting to learn how to effectively teach (skills, lesson planning, etc.) I'd suggest you look into Taaj's Belly Dance trainer course. -
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Mon, December 22, 2008 - 4:39 PMI think the abilities and limitations of your students have to be assessed when planning lessons. It's important to be flexible with them and give them proper time to learn things solidly, but also to be able to keep them challenged.
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Re: teaching course plan???
Tue, December 23, 2008 - 9:04 AMPlease excuse the following ad, but I do have a booklet "Guide to Teaching MED", & you can find it at my website. Or, you can check out my pre-teaching questionnaire on Gilded Serpent www.gildedserpent.com/article...hing.htm for some ideas, but it's not specifically a course or guide.... best of luck to you -
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Wed, December 24, 2008 - 6:31 PMI have a written outline, but I find that depending on the wants/needs of my students, I may not strictly adhere to it.
Whatever I do, I start with a warm-up, do a review of the last class(es), add new moves, practice with the new moves (including transitioning), then a cool-down.
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Tue, January 27, 2009 - 4:37 PMI have a basic outline of which moves I'm going to cover each week - but as to actually writing down how I plan to teach them or whether make it aroebic or drill (leave that to students, music, and mood)
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Tue, January 27, 2009 - 7:10 PMI am a suhaila format fan all the way... so I've found her level 1 and 2 manuals really helpful when planning my classes. My beginner class is just ongoing, so I basically made a 20 week outline (cuz that's all would fit on a page, lol) going through the manuals and just picking a few moves per week. I think even if you didn't teach her format, it would still be a good tool.
Anyway, I always do:
- a warmup
- drill one or two new moves
- drill a combination that connects the new stuff to moves learned in previous weeks
- (sometimes a shimmy drill if there is extra time)
- cooldown
I don't write how I'll teach the moves, and a lot of time I don't write the combination either- I just have a list of week 1, 2, 3, etc. and which moves to focus on. -
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 1:55 PMIt seems my course plan changes with each lass, given that sometimes we get mixed levels, sometimes just beginners, depending on how they catch onto the material. So while we have a few basics : warm-up, moves, cool-down, we also do specific planning each week and tailor it. What works great in one class falls apart in another. So the fall beginner class might get to 3/4 shimmy, but the spring class might to get to it due to tother things going on, but they might get a veil work intro. It also helps that we get a decent amount of repeat people so its good to shake it up a bit. Its a constant learning/re-learning/ ressurecting, letting go, adding on process. I hope I never have a flat formula where week 1 we always teach move A and week 2 we do move B. There are way too many variables. There are a few things that do seem to fall around the same time (I keep notes for each class) so a pattern has been emerging over my 3 years of teaching, but its always subject to change as I learn more and can pass that onward.
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Fri, February 6, 2009 - 8:20 PMI'm sure responses to this question run the gammet ---
Many teachers make their own lesson plans, and some learn from others'. I'm sure that most dancers model their preliminary classes off of their teacher's classes. Have you talked to your teacher about starting out on your own? Maybe she would help you come up with a course plan and individual lesson plans?
Another thing to do is to practice teaching friends and see how it goes. Teaching is like performing - practice makes perfect! :) -
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Sun, February 15, 2009 - 8:12 AMHi,
Always have a warm up...I use the basic moves as my warm up moves. I work the warm up head down to toes and back up finishing with a shimmy series. The cool down I adapt to the moves we do during class. Having a warm up and cool down Will cut back on injuries. I always allow 5min of free dance. I watch the students and can spot possible problem areas... ;)=) and they have fun. You will never have a class in which every student is at the same level of development so be ready to respond quickly and in an enabling manner. Just a few Ideas...
Dandy
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Mon, February 16, 2009 - 1:51 PMIt depends on what I'm teaching. For eg: if I'm teaching a ten weeks choro course, I will write it out and then go through it with different coloured highlighters and mark off eight sections. If there's repetitive parts, they are only one section - not two or three.
I then teach a section each week (with a warm up and cool down of course).
If there is a move that I think may be particularly hard for everyone, I start teaching it from the very first class (even if it's not in that section) so that they get plenty of practice. Then when we get to the section that has the move in it, it's not overwhelming. About halfway thorugh the course I also try to have a revision class where we just go through everything we've already done. In the last class, I try to have only a very small section to teach (if any) so that a lot of the class is going through everything again.
And that makes up the ten week course :-)
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Mon, February 16, 2009 - 3:16 PMThanks for all your advice! Ayperi, I started learning to bellydance in 1979, and about 5 years later my first teacher said I needed to find a more advanced teacher,so then I went to Dunia in San Jose for several years.And I learned such a wide variety of things from her too! So I don't even remember what beginning classes are like, and I don't have a teacher to ask. But I now have 4 students, and judging by the amount of feedback we get when they dance, I must be doing it right.They seem to be inspired and ready to work hard each week!
