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12 Tips for Teaching Tots
Managing, engaging, and interacting with young children in an active setting like a dance class can be extremely challenging. Photo by Tommy Wong I have found that classes for dancers under six or...
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The Mouse Ran Up The Clock: Exploring Time With Nursery Rhyme
Kid Concepts Have you used this nursery rhyme while teaching? If you have, then you were probably utilizing time. Image via Wikipedia Time is an element that dancers use without even thinking about it....
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Leading Adults Through Toddler Dance Class: Part 2
Teaching dance is hard enough. Add a room full of 1-year-olds running in circles it becomes even harder. Add their grown-ups and you have yourself a big puzzle to solve. Last time, I offered you tools...
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Choices, Choices: Growing Independent Dancers
A few years ago, Nichelle wrote this popular article on teaching tots. Because of your encouraging response to the material, she asked me to expand on some of the headlines. Over the next few months I...
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How’s Your Pitch? Using The Power of Your Voice
“Follow me” I whisper as I sneak around the room on my toes. As I gain more and more experience teaching little ones, I become more aware of things that work and things that don’t. One thing I know for...
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Happy Slips: Using Competition to Internalize Good Habits?
It is fair to say I spend a decent amount of time presenting alternatives to competition dance. Photo by State Library of Queensland, Australia I readily admit, though, that competition has a certain...
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Managing the Middle School “Shut Down”
Photo Courtesy of Robinlou8 Even when you have the best of relationships with your students, there are days or weeks that some middle-schoolers will grunt, shrug, or ignore every attempt you make to...
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