[Tango-L] a teaching moment

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Hi Jay,

At the time, my only exposure to teaching beginners
was by using the 8-count basic and your typical salon
vocabulary.  This was what all of the visiting
professionals had taught in their workshops for
novices.  I also knew next to nothing about the music.
 I had already begun trying not to teach patterns and
to focus on movement, but I had not yet seen different
ways of teaching complete novices.

It was soon afterwards that I met Susana Miller,
Robert Hauk, and Tom Stermitz.

Trini


--- Jay Rabe <jayrabe at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Trini,
> 
>      Unfortunate that you couldn't remember what you
> were teaching that 
> prompted the awakening, but can you tell us how you
> 'changed your approach 
> to teaching'?
> 
>      J
>      www.TangoMoments.com
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos at yahoo.com>
> 
> I had a teaching moment that happened a couple of
> months after I had started teaching tango.  Several
> weeks into a beginners class, I was working with a
> student and she suddenly said "Now I feel like I am
> dancing!"
> 
> That comment made me change my approach to teaching.
> It is still something I keep in mind every time I
> teach a new class, even though I do not recall what
> I
> was teaching at the time.
> 
> Trini de Pittsburgh
> 
> 
> --- jackie ling wong <jackie.wong at adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> 
>  > okay... i would like to start a thread of
> teaching
>  > moments...  when
>  > the light bulb goes off... innovative thoughts
> that
>  > can help teachers
>  > help their students
>  >
> 
> 
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