What You Need To Know To Be A Certified Belly Dance Teacher
Belly Dance teacher training may seem straight forward and obvious at first but what you need to know is there are levels to this stuff. First of all, anybody can learn belly dance and then decide to teach it. Consequently, the same people can offer teacher training courses and teach other people. Let me be clear, being a great belly dancer and being a great teacher are two different things. Furthermore, being a great teacher and being a great belly dance teacher are pretty different too.
What you need to know to be a certified belly dance teacher can be broken down and explained clearly in Melissa's teacher training description. She is a belly dancer and a teacher with Over 15 years experience. Find it below.
The Melissa Belly Dance Teacher Training course is one of the most respected in the UK.
Melissa's belly dance teacher training courses are well known for the in depth knowledge, theory and practical application.
Melissa Belly Dance is well known for her teaching methods, approach, also her techniques and fun upbeat classes.
Who is the course for?
This course is greatly beneficial to dancers as well as anyone with the desire to teach. Belly Dance Teacher Training And What You Need To Know will give you a complete break down of everything you need to be the best belly dance teacher possible.
Due to the nature of the training, students taking this course should have an intermediate to advanced level of belly dance comprehension.
Attend the course to gain a deeper understanding of belly dance and to aid their personal progression as a dancer. Likewise, attend to learn the skills required to become a safe, knowledgeable and respected belly dance teacher.
The exam consists of both a written exam and a practical exam. This is Belly Dance Teacher Training | What You Need To Know
All participants that pass will receive a Melissa BellyDance Certification.
Teacher Training Course Content:
- Class layout/ structure
- Safe warm ups/ cool downs
- Class/ Course syllabus
- Anatomy and Belly dance
- Movements, breakdowns and their safety points
- Posture types and corrections
- Student learning types and how to teach these types
- Teaching methods
- Combinations/ Choreography
- History
- Musicality
- Professionalism
- Business planning
- Benefits
- 1 essay on a given subject.
- 1 presentation of a given subject
- exam written and practical
Class Layout/ Structure/ Organisation/ Planning
First in the list and very important. Many different aspects go into class layout. Educational, spatial and atmospherical are some examples you will find on this course. Because a good teacher training course will involve in depth explanations into these practices.
Safe Warm Ups And Cool Downs
A really important aspect into an excellent teacher training course is safe warm ups and another is cool downs. Because with out this delivered to a high standard health and safety is at risk. Also choosing good music to accompany warm ups and cool downs is not only often overlooked but mostly not much emphasis is put on this subject. The delivery of both warm ups and cool downs are maybe often miss-taught due to the lack of experience of teachers.
Class/ Course Syllabus
Most noteworthy is the teacher training syllabus. Without extensive syllabus content a teacher will not be equipped to deliver the best lessons possible to students. This can cause gaps and holes in education and content delivery. Similarly, too much content that is irrelevant to studies can have an equally negative effect. Knowing what is relevant and irrelevant is an important teaching skill because the success of student development and progress depends on this.
Anatomy And Belly Dance
Understanding the anatomy, muscles and their roles in movement make for a better teacher furthermore, you cannot call yourself a belly dance teacher with out it. Another thing many teacher training programs lack is sufficient education in anatomy and its relationship with belly dancing. Mostly due to the teacher trainings lack of knowledge and expertise in this subject.
Movements, Breakdowns And Their Safety Points
Combining anatomy with syllabus content. Breaking down movements while demonstrating different ways to explain movements and techniques. Educating the safety aspects involved in teaching movements and identifying individual body types that need to be accommodated for.
Posture Types And Corrections
Identifying posture types while teaching corrections. Correcting posture and addressing posture types and their causes rather than using techniques that generalise and ignore individual needs. Learning innovative techniques and as a result adding them to your repertoire.
Student Learning Types
People differ in how they best receive information when learning. Each person can prefer different learning styles and techniques. Student learning types group common ways that people learn. Some have a dominant style of learning, and depend a lot less on the other types. Everyone is a mix of learning types. Furthermore some use different styles in different circumstances. There is no right or wrong learning type so we use this to better teach students.
Teaching Methods
This includes learning types but also other effective teaching methods and practices. This is a combination of text book academic methods and also over 15 years of real life experience teaching maybe 1000's of students.
Combinations And Choreography
Creating awesome combinations and original choreography. Ways to translate inspiration into dance. How to overcome writers block and finding inspiration. Being technically accurate, knowing the rules and when to break them.
History
Exploring the history of Belly Dance. Its origins, predecessors, and influences. The evolution of belly dance and its many styles and variations.
Musicality
Exploring musicality not only belly dance and belly dance rhythms. Songs, meanings, interpretations in context with what is being taught or demonstrated. Exploring another aspect to musicality, timing, counting and receiving musical direction. While some teacher training programs offer basic education in this because Melissa has experience in music production her insight and teaching in invaluable.
Professionalism
Code of conduct, etiquette and also school principles. Excellent customer service and classroom management. Organisation and record keeping. Book keeping and digital marketing tools so you operate at the highest level of professionalism.
Business Planning
How to plan an effective business. Operational business strategies. Creating a successful belly dance school. Learning how to evolve your business to change with the times hence maintaining relevance. Melissa has not only managed to successfully do this for over 10 years but she has also continued to grow and expand.
Belly Dance Teacher Training Dates 2020:
Melissa Belly Dance Teacher Training Level 1
June 2020 (6th - 12th -20th & 27th) Saturdays 3pm -8 pm
Melissa Belly Dance Teacher Training Level 2
