Coaching, Teaching, Mentoring: The Kinesthetic Loop

Teaching: As dance teachers, we're teaching them the basics and background of modern dance in order to provide them with more knowledge about movement and not necessarily make them into professional dancers. We're allowing our students to make mistakes and learn from them, communicating through our examples, and aiming to make them more well-rounded.

Coaching: As dance coaches, we're looking at our students on a more individual level in order to identify their needs and help them learn how to respond to any potential problems. We want to equip them with the tools and knowledge they need to move beyond this class whether they continue their dance career or not. We're identifying these students with potential as dancers and coaching them toward their goals in the dance field.

Mentoring: As dance mentors, we start off by creating a comfortable space where all students can trust us and where we can identify dance potential in our students. Like our duties as dance coaches, we will mentor these identified students and help them find the resources they need to continue their dance career outside of our program. We will spend extra or focused time with them and help them attain these goals.

Activity: We want to create an interactive history lesson for Black History Month and create stations that relate to Alvin Ailey and his Revelations production. Some of the stations would be them picking a move from his style out of a hat and having them interpret it and then we follow up by teaching them and guessing which facts are true and false for Alvin Ailey himself.

Lesson: We will host a creative dance workshop where students will focus on improvisation and connecting their emotions to their dances. Students will learn how to interpret instructions in their own way. An example of an activity is that we will instruct students to make a shape with their bodies, but no group can have the same shape. This will challenge our students to think outside the box and work on their confidence and communication skills.


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