My mum and I have decided to run a street dance class on Friday's at 4 which I am very excited about! The reason for this is because I'd love to get more experience out of teaching and working with children. To be able to do this whilst doing something I love is a bonus. I've also been offered a job as a teacher teaching street dance on a Monday by Lisa Millar who is a professional in the performing arts industry.
I've already run my taster class and ended up with 12 students attending which is the maximum that I'm allowed for health and safety reasons which is amazing! If I get more requests from people though I may think about running a second class after the 4pm one. So far I have 5 year 3's wanting to do a street class therefore I am thinking about doing a younger, easier class. I aimed the class at 9-12 year olds because from experience from PQA, I have found that that age group respond well and are very eager to do dance classes, especialy street dance.
Sounds embarrassing doing it with my mum but she's in charge of paperwork and all the boring stuff and I do the fun bit! Although she does talk me through everything as it's no experience for me if I don't know what's happening and how its happening etc. I get involved with the advertising and organising too so that my mum doesn't feel like she is doing it all by herself.
The best part is the venue! It's local, has mirrors!!! and is a dance studio! When I saw the room I was so chuffed as it is perfect! I am not used to having mirrors or a dance studio at all when dancing or teaching which is why this is great for me. I am deeply looking forward to the future and what experience this will give me - and how great for my CV too!
Tell me about it with the mirrors, imagine that at school?!
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent thing for you to do and will help you understand performing arts as a business too. I would like to see some photographic evidence and maybe you could get some questionnaires filled in from your students (or their parents) for evidence? I would also try for a video too (but obviously get permission from the children's parents before you fim) and make it about you teaching, so film with the childrens backs to camera focusing on you.
I will create some questionnaires for the class and will get my mum who will be there to take photos of me teaching the children with the back of their heads to the camera, also I will ask for the parents permission if I can get the students' faces in the photos for evidence.
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