![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teaching...
Jan. 20th, 2006 12:05 pmso I've taught two classes now.
the first night ... was a little rough...
It went much faster than I expected. I just kept teaching one move and then the next - moving on to the next after it seemed like they got it... I felt like I was moving too fast and yet? I guess I didn't expect them to 'get it' so quickly. When it seemed like some of them just weren't going to get it... it made sense to move on before they lost confidence and got frustrated. I'm not used to talking so much - especially while dancing and thinking about the beat and everything else... ugh.
they caught my explanations well, so I guess I break it down and explain well?
but at the point where I was teaching the steps for the warm up dance, I suddenly lost it and couldn't find the beat in the music anymore... not good. I was just too tired - burnt out?
- because they were both such small classes - we're going to combine them - and I'll only have one class to teach, 6 students in total - it will save my voice and my energy rather than having to run through everything twice...
I'm afraid if we keep moving so fast that I'm going to run out of material and I will have to do some choreography...
last night went much smoother - for me anyway...
I don't want to discourage any one but I feel like I'm picking on the same person over and over. She has a tendency to put too much latin sass into the moves? That'll be great if she moves on to intermediate/advanced because she already has a layerig technique in there... but she needs to learn the isolations first. I'm trying to remember to compliment and encourage them.
I think I am more comfortable as a student - after two nights only - I would say that I don't really like teaching. But I will reserve judgement and see how I feel after six or twelve weeks.
the first night ... was a little rough...
It went much faster than I expected. I just kept teaching one move and then the next - moving on to the next after it seemed like they got it... I felt like I was moving too fast and yet? I guess I didn't expect them to 'get it' so quickly. When it seemed like some of them just weren't going to get it... it made sense to move on before they lost confidence and got frustrated. I'm not used to talking so much - especially while dancing and thinking about the beat and everything else... ugh.
they caught my explanations well, so I guess I break it down and explain well?
but at the point where I was teaching the steps for the warm up dance, I suddenly lost it and couldn't find the beat in the music anymore... not good. I was just too tired - burnt out?
- because they were both such small classes - we're going to combine them - and I'll only have one class to teach, 6 students in total - it will save my voice and my energy rather than having to run through everything twice...
I'm afraid if we keep moving so fast that I'm going to run out of material and I will have to do some choreography...
last night went much smoother - for me anyway...
I don't want to discourage any one but I feel like I'm picking on the same person over and over. She has a tendency to put too much latin sass into the moves? That'll be great if she moves on to intermediate/advanced because she already has a layerig technique in there... but she needs to learn the isolations first. I'm trying to remember to compliment and encourage them.
I think I am more comfortable as a student - after two nights only - I would say that I don't really like teaching. But I will reserve judgement and see how I feel after six or twelve weeks.
