Amulya
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I am curious if this is different for each teacher. What format do you offer? Do you allow drop ins or only students who paid for the whole course? How long is each course?
Here is what I normally do:
courses of 10 lessons and no drop ins. Drop ins (with that I mean people who turn up every now and then) are too hard because if they come in at say the 5th lesson they can't keep up anymore with the rest and they will slow down everything.
Plus students pay for the whole thing in once. If someone wants to join later (and pay for the rest of the course what's left over), I'd allow, but they have to know they might not be able to keep up that well, lucky I have had some who were fast learners
Now maybe for some other class format it is possible to have drop ins, but my classes have very set goals.
The first course for beginners has as goal that at the end the students can do a little (simple) choreography and have also learned to do a bit of improv (again very simple). So dropping in at say, lesson 9 can be a bit tricky.
When it comes to beginners 2, brand new students can not drop in anymore because they'd be too far behind, unless they already had classes with someone else. The ones who have been taking classes with me before (finished the beginners 1) could drop in in theory, but again, there is a set course which has been paid for in advance.
When it comes to more advanced drop ins are OK in the sense that they can keep up, but I don't like the idea of people paying for seperate classes: you never know if someone turns up or not.
I am way too strict :lol: but as a teacher you need to protect your income.
A question for those who have ongoing classes with no set standards on how many lessons per course:
do you have standards of what students have to be able to do after a certain amount of lessons? How do you deal with people who enter later in the year so they can keep up? Do you let them pay in blocks for a certain amount of lessons, can they enter at any time?
Here is what I normally do:
courses of 10 lessons and no drop ins. Drop ins (with that I mean people who turn up every now and then) are too hard because if they come in at say the 5th lesson they can't keep up anymore with the rest and they will slow down everything.
Plus students pay for the whole thing in once. If someone wants to join later (and pay for the rest of the course what's left over), I'd allow, but they have to know they might not be able to keep up that well, lucky I have had some who were fast learners
Now maybe for some other class format it is possible to have drop ins, but my classes have very set goals.
The first course for beginners has as goal that at the end the students can do a little (simple) choreography and have also learned to do a bit of improv (again very simple). So dropping in at say, lesson 9 can be a bit tricky.
When it comes to beginners 2, brand new students can not drop in anymore because they'd be too far behind, unless they already had classes with someone else. The ones who have been taking classes with me before (finished the beginners 1) could drop in in theory, but again, there is a set course which has been paid for in advance.
When it comes to more advanced drop ins are OK in the sense that they can keep up, but I don't like the idea of people paying for seperate classes: you never know if someone turns up or not.
I am way too strict :lol: but as a teacher you need to protect your income.
A question for those who have ongoing classes with no set standards on how many lessons per course:
do you have standards of what students have to be able to do after a certain amount of lessons? How do you deal with people who enter later in the year so they can keep up? Do you let them pay in blocks for a certain amount of lessons, can they enter at any time?
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