Teaching a studio twice a week = 4.5 hours a week X 16 weeks=72 hours Assisting faculty research 6 hours a week X 16 weeks=96 hours Teaching and Graduate assistants may be assigned as course support for any department course. The director generally assigns an assistant for DCE 205, 305 and 505. Faculty teaching other courses may request an assignment in consultation with the director at the point of course schedule development (January/February for fall terms and August/September for spring terms). Once a schedule is finalized the student and faculty consult to go over assigned hours. The student keeps track of their hours and informs the faculty member and director if when they have completed their assigned hours. All faculty members may also request Research Assistants (RA). Faculty in service roles, i.e. Director of Dance Education, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUGS), and the Technical Coordinator will also be assigned GA/TA hours. Teaching Assistant Observation and Mentoring The goal is for the TA observation and mentoring sessions to be affirmational (i.e. good job!), formative (work on x, y and z) and summative (submitting self-assessment at the end of each term). School of Dance Teaching Assistant Evaluations Protocol New teaching assistants will be observed during the first three weeks of the semester by their a supervising faculty member. Per accreditation guidelines, all teaching assistants will be observed once per semester. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a new course will follow the same rules for new teaching assistants, detailed above. Continuing teaching assistants teaching a course they have taught before have the option of 1) being observed once per semester by their mentoring faculty member or 2) scheduling a conversation about their teaching with their mentoring faculty. It is the TA’s responsibility to schedule observations. Teaching Assistants will forward a syllabus to their mentor prior to the scheduled observation. They should request that their supervising faculty sends the Teaching Assistant Mentorship Supervisor, Dr. Ana Paula Höfling, either 1) a completed School of Dance TA evaluation form or 2) a one-to-two paragraph narrative of the teaching observation. For senior teaching assistants choosing a conversation with their supervising faculty, an email from the faculty member to the TA mentorship supervisor is forwarded to the Director of Dance and entered into the student’s file in the Main Dance Office. The deadline for submission of all evaluations is the last day of instruction of the semester. Instructors are expected to
The National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD) requires that graduate students enrolled in a course that simultaneously enrolls undergraduate and graduate students complete specific published requirements that are at a graduate level. Graduate students may earn 624 credits through regular in-class participation in an undergraduate technique class (100-400 level) and through the completion of one additional project related to as determined by each student in consultation with the course instructor. 624 projects should not be confused with those that may be undertaken under the auspices of DCE 695 Independent Study or DCE 662 Practicum in Teaching Dance courses. DCE 624 projects may be comprised of such activities as reflective journaling, research-related writing, practice teaching or the creation of lesson plans, presentations or the production of other artifacts directly related to course content. Concerts: Policies and Procedures See Amy Masters (Publicity and Marketing Coordinator) concerning publicity, and Beverly Stallings (Business Services Coordinator) concerning accounting procedures, in your concert process. Guidelines for Concerts The following general guidelines applies all School of Dance concerts: Designs for all posters/postcards, marketing materials, and programs for all concerts must be approved by the director and Amy Masters before they are sent for printing, to ensure compliance with established University Relations guidelines. More information regarding guidelines and specifications can be at . All publicity material must state prominently that this is a production of the UNCG Schoo of Dance, and must carry the UNCG logo. All choreographers for shared concerts should be mindful of the needs of their collaborators. On shared repertory evenings, any work over 15 minutes in length needs to be cleared with the assigned Concert Coordinator. Plans for scenery and props to be used must be approved in advance by the Technical Director. No one should put any charges on a University account, or make any expenditures for which they expect to be reimbursed, without checking first with the Business Services Coordinator The coordinator of each concert and the Technical Director should be content
in full force and effect. I acknowledge that I am over 18 and have read this entire agreement and understand its terms and provisions. Choreographer’s Signature: Print Name: Portion of choreography if applicable: APPENDIX VI: HOUSE MANAGER DUTIES The front-of-house operations are extremely important. The front of house manager is instrumental in the success of a show, as well as the patrons experience while in the the theater. Box office personnel and ushers have initial contact with a patron as they enter and leave the dance theater; with this in mind the house crew must be prepared, knowledgeable and polite while in direct contact with patrons. It is the duty of the house manager to make sure the ushers are well informed and courteous with patrons. Preparation of Ushers and Instruction Recruit ushers one to two weeks before the performance. Each show will require 4 ushers unless more are needed or requested all ushers providing them with instruction and confirmation of their attendance base with choreographer to receive special instruction, or to make sure there are none Email ushers the day before as a reminder Order of Duties House manager is to report to the theater no later then an hour and fifteen minutes before the start of show. in with Stage manager at booth and introduce yourself as “house manager” find out when there is to be late seating, or any other special Instructions you should know. Check in with box office and get a count of ticket sales Check with the box office periodically in order to know when floor seating will start. Box office opens an hour before show start