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3 Ways To Freshen Up Your Fall Dance Curriculum

August 28, 2018 by Guest Contributors Leave a Comment

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Plan to succeed in the new dance season. Make your fall dance routines and class material feel fresh, even to you!

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: affirmations, class planning, curriculum, lesson planning, music for dance class, new ideas, partnering

Personal Study: Observation In and Out of the Studio

January 15, 2013 by Heather Vaughan-Southard

A playground for children

Heather thinks ahead to how she’ll refuel in the New Year and during the summer so that she can best serve her students. Don’t worry, early planning of stay-home summer strategies can ensure better productivity through-out the current semester. Try it!

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: creative process, dance in schools, dance in the annex, grand rapids, K-12, lesson planning, meditative walk, observation, planning ahead, public school, slow walk, summer planning, teacher planning, teaching K-12 dance

5 Ideas That Will Make You Feel Like Less Of A Teaching Robot

March 29, 2012 by Maria Hanley Blakemore

Dance teachers teach a lot of classes to earn a living. Repetition makes it easier to organize but harder to keep things fresh. Maria has adapted these 5 ideas to stop feeling like a robot in her preschool dance classes. Try them for yourself to beat burnout and enjoy your classes again.

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: bored with my teaching, Burn out, burnout, children's dance, creating dance classes, creative dance, curriculum planning, education, educator burnout, fresh ideas, how to enliven your dance classes, idea journal, keep a journal, keeping things fresh, lesson planning, preschoolers, teaching rut, themed dance classes, tired of teaching the same thing, young dancers

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