The Kind of Feedback Your Dance Students Really Crave

A great dance teacher is somebody who not only teaches the student, but inspires the student.

1. Plenty of feedback.

Everyone loves a teacher who gives them lots of corrections.

2. Useful feedback.

The best teachers are not only ones who give lots of corrections, but give corrections relevant to dance as a whole.

3. Something to work on each time.

Going into a combination without a focus point or idea of what we should be working on can be difficult for a student to manage, and our minds tend to drift.

4. The how, not just the what.

If a teacher tells us how to manage a certain step rather than just what the right way is, we can learn from it and we find it easier to apply the correction.

5. Versatile feedback.

If a student is not applying a correction very well, we love it if a teacher will try to say it in a different way and see if that makes sense with the student

6. The opportunity to ask questions.

Especially if the teacher is new or a guest, it’s important to ask us if we have questions about the combination.

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