Exceptional teachers have the ability to multitask when communicating movement. Effective communication of dance requires insightful movement analysis and the ability to convey that information to students. Student assessment and evaluation. Good teachers should be able to measure students skills prior to class experience, during students performance in class, and should be able to make an overall assessment of accomplishment at the conclusion of class. Effective teachers provide for constant and individual feedback, insightful corrections.
Some teachers are fearful of giving constructive feedback out of concern for losing students.
Such teachers are eliminating the most important part of the learning experience. Students of such teachers are shortchanged during the instructional process. A good teacher has the ability to handle different levels within the class, to adapt work for individuals with varying skills. Such a teacher will spend a significant portion of the class sitting and observing, making corrections and drawing class attention to them, walking around the room, touching, correcting, using student s to demonstrate, all as part of the evaluation process. If you are watching a class, look to see how effective a teacher s corrections are.