Dance teacher training stuff.

[mysteriousaliways]

Just finished the second weekend of my dance teaching course. Overall, it went pretty well although the microteaching bit, having to teach a warmup to a group of the other students, was quite a terrifying prospect. I forgot stuff and had to do it in the wrong order, and ended up running out of time, but I suppose it could have been worse. (A lot of the other students ran out of time while doing theirs, so I wasn't the only one at least.)

The rest of it went fine though - I got good marks in the written assignments (an Excellent and two Goods) and they rated my technique pretty highly. Jo, who created the course, said my dancing was better than most of the others on the course, and that I should get onto the Diploma course no problem.

Yay for me!
*bounces*

I really want to do the Diploma course. Four weekends and a 7-day residential course, and it costs £1500 *winces*. I'll just have to rein back in on the expenditure. There are so many dance events going on that I want to go to but need more time and/or money.

Edit: Actually, it's £1550. Not including accommodation. Someone hide my credit cards and delete all the online shopping links from my Favourites pliz?

Comments

[shinelikeaspoon.livejournal.com]

It may be expensive but at the same time you only get one chance to do these things, right? It's something you love and that in itself makes it money well spent. As for the teaching certificate thing you mentioned in your previous post, that's what I plan on doing, myself, soon. It's just something worth having. An avenue, so to speak.

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

True. They only run the course every other year, and if I want to develop a dance-related career I'd better get a move on before I get too aged and decrepit!

The general teaching stuff would be useful, you're right. I'd like to have the qualification, as it would mean a whole lot more opportunities would be open to me. It's just the prospect of slogging though all that training to get it, on top of what I already have on my plate, that was kind of daunting. Still, the council are willing to pay the course fees for me for those, which is worth taking advantage of.

So you might be adding that string to your bow too? Sounds useful, especially for a career in the arts/media area. How have things been going with you? I presume you've been rather busy, since your LJ has been unusually quiet recently :)

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

And if nothing else, it should be really good in terms of networking. Some really high-profile people in the bellydance world have been involved with the course, so I should get some very useful contacts.

[shinelikeaspoon.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't mean it quite that way :D

That's pretty cool, though. My problem is I have a D in GCSE maths - I'm thinking of re-sitting at some point.

Yeah, I really want to be able to teach, further education in particular. As you say, it's useful mainly because in my choice of career it's hard to find long-lasting work so I need an additional potential source of income. Besides Cinema Monkey work obviously. And yeah, I've been working most days of late and visiting my Nan in hospital so I don't seem to be around a lot. They've cut my hours down now though so touch wood I'll be able to chill out a bit.

[mysteriousaliwz.livejournal.com]

*chortles* I know you didn't mean it that way m'dear - that's just my own perspective on it :)

Cinema Monkey - I get the mental image of swinging from the projector ...

It should be good for you to get the chance to put your feet up and/or socialise for a bit.