It is essential to our existence and has been largely responsible for our success. On-going training to certification will take a minimum of four weeks after the workshop ends. T he workshop is daunting, but every trainee has access to support and feedback from experienced teachers every step of the way. All theory is tightly linked to the practicals, with heavy emphasis on the latter. Developing education skills is the centrepiece of the course, with dance being developed more during the Teachers' Sundays.
T here are six sessions of ninety minutes each.
Once selected for a teaching role, trainees can expect to spend a further hour per session in teaching a level. Stressing the difference between dancing for recreation and for instruction. Session Two Focuses on aspects of verbal communication in remedial teaching. All material covered in the past three sessions is applied in a series of simulations. Experienced teachers pose as novice dancers with at least one fault, which the trainee must detect and correct.