Our student teacher programme provides advanced students with the opportunity to further their dance skills and branch out into teaching. 

Students are offered the opportunity take part in a 2 day workshop, covering the basics of teaching a dance class, warm up, instructing various ages and their specific needs, creating dance exercises (travelling and in place), progression of a dancer, choreography, spotting in acro, safe guarding and first aid. At the end of the 2 day course they have to take a physical and written assesment. If successful they gain a teaching assistant certificate and report. 

Following this students can then go on to attend further workshops specifying in teaching a particular dance style. 

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Opportunities then open up for them to teach a class. These are paid positions, they must submit a video of them teaching (you can see examples of these on our “online classes” page), attend a verbal interview and teach a trial class. If they are successful in applying for the job they attend bi-weekly meetings with Mrs Sarah to discuss class progress and demonstrate choreography, an adult is always present when they are teaching. 

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Teaching a dance class demonstrates responsibility, organisation and leadership. These skills are all something a future employer or University look for. We encourage students to add this to their CV and applications as it will lead to further opportunities. 

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If you are an advanced pupil and you’d like the opportunity to join our student teaching team please get in touch 

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