[Tango-L] Criteria for choosing teachers

[NANCY]

1) Are they a member of the club?
2)  Do they support the club by attending milongas and sending their students? 
3) Have they taught a class prior to a milonga and was it well received by the students?
4) Are they able to dance both stage and social tango or do they only dance & teach stage tango??

I think you must start at a very basic level here....not that your other criteria would not be useful, I think they might be obviously discriminatory.  Let's face it, we have had long-time Argentine dancers  from BsAs who could not teach their way out of a basic step.

I think you also need a disclaimer saying you do not endorse any teacher to make it fair.




________________________________
 From: Lois Donnay <donnay at donnay.net>
To: Tango-L <Tango-L at mit.edu> 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:44 PM
Subject: [Tango-L] Criteria for choosing teachers
 
What do you think should be the criteria of the local tango club for the
instructors that it chooses for their Argentine Tango instructor list?  The
club wants to be fair, but is also aware that everyone who teaches
Argentine Tango is not necessarily qualified to do so (If you ask any
Arthur Murray franchise if they teach A. Tango, they will say yes despite
having no knowledge of it.)

So what should be the criteria? Lessons for # years? Ongoing public group
classes in Argentine Tango?  Visited Buenos Aires? Danced in Buenos Aires?
Taught in Buenos Aires?  Invited to teach A. Tango in out of state
workshops?

Lois
Minneapolis
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