Here are links to a couple of articles from Dance Magazine about risk and recovery from injury. I am sure you will find them interesting.
There is a lot of good information available today about helping dancers, dance students and dance teachers to pay attention to safe dance practice and consider dancer health and wellbeing during training. Continue reading
This is an area of dance that I did not intentionally get involved with but I am so glad that I did. Teaching older adults became popular through the exercise and fitness arena with the groups referred to as:
There are two short online CPD courses for dance teachers running in January 2016. Details and booking forms are available below.
This is a brand new course looking at proprioception in relation to dance teaching and learning. We will explore this ‘sixth sense’ or ‘awareness of one’s body in space’ and consider ways to develop and enhance this in the dance students you teach. We will also consider teaching techniques for dance students with reduced proprioception such as those with hypermobility syndrome. Planing and delivering a session or class focusing on developing proprioception enables an opportunity to apply this understanding in your dance teaching practice.
As with all of the Short Online CPD Courses for Dance teachers, the weekly email tutorials over the three weeks of the course are an important aspect of this CPD.
For more details about this course download the information sheet below:
Short online CPD – Proprioception
Closing dates for courses
Closing dates for courses have been introduced so please ensure bookings and payment are received by the closing date for the course/s you wish to take.
Please note that the closing date for bookings and payment for the January 2016 courses is: Thursday 31 December 2015
Learning and Teaching Dance: tension and rigidity in dance
This is proving to be a popular course with teachers. First we will reflect on how tension and rigidity are often taught or encouraged as a way of achieving control in dance. This might relate to a rigid and tense posture or use of tension and tightness to support the arms or perhaps tensing the feet when dancing. Then we will explore methods and approaches relating to your own dance teaching practices that should help to develop control in your students’ technique and performance without relying on tension and rigidity.
Download the course information sheet for this course:
Learning & Teaching Dance – tension & rigidity in dance
Closing dates for courses
Closing dates for courses have been introduced so please ensure bookings and payment are received by the closing date for the course/s you wish to take.
Please note that the closing date for bookings and payment for the January 2016 courses is: Thursday 31 December 2015
April Courses
Dates and details for courses staring in April are:
Starting: Friday 22 April 2016
Completing: Thursday 12 May 2016
Dance Teaching Ethics: an introduction
Ethics and dance teaching might seem like a totally new topic for dance teachers but in reality dance teachers have been dealing with ethical dilemmas for a long time. In ethical dance teaching practice we aim to deal with such dilemmas in ways that respect the whole person. We do this through teaching methods and approaches that value dance students and dancers for what they are rather than what they can do. In other words, valuing the person they are and not just their dance abilities. This ethical or person-centred dance teaching practice considers both the physical and psychological aspects of the teaching. Ethical teaching helps student dancers and dancers to reach their fullest potential.
During this course we will explore, discuss and reflect on examples of teaching ethically and how ethical principles can be applied in dance teaching practice. We will also consider the codes, rules or standards that dance teachers often sign up to and how they work or not in practice.
For more details about this course download the information sheet below:
Short CPD- Dance teaching ethics – an introduction
Closing dates for courses
Closing dates for courses have been introduced so please ensure bookings and payment are received by the closing date for the course/s you wish to take.
Please note that the closing date for bookings and payment for the April 2016 courses is: Wednesday 6 April 2016
Aspects of Anatomy: exploring basic shoulder anatomy and function in dance
In dance we tend to talk about placing and moving the arms and not focusing on the shoulder joint where the movement occurs. So, in this course, we will explore the basic anatomy of this vital joint and then focus on how it functions in dance. You will consider ways of incorporating teaching methods that aim to improve shoulder alignment and movement into your own teaching practice.
For more details about this course download the information sheet below:
Short CPD- Aspects of Anatomy- shoulder
Closing dates for courses
Closing dates for courses have been introduced so please ensure bookings and payment are received by the closing date for the course/s you wish to take.
Please note that the closing date for bookings and payment for the April 2016 courses is: Wednesday 6 April 2016
I hope to have an opportunity to work with you on one or more of the courses outlined above.
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Do you need to achieve a certain amount of CPD each year? These short online courses could be just what you need. They might contribute to your annual CPD requirements by qualifying as external CPD points or credits with your dance teacher organisation or body. Why not download the course information sheets and give them to the body that monitors your CPD requesting that the course/s be counted towards your CPD total for the year? Your CPD monitoring body can contact me if after reading the information sheets they have further questions about the courses.
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