Shanazel
Moderator
I don't want to be unkind, but if you are going to teach dance or anything else, you need to be firmly grounded in reality and not spinning in a shiny bubble of self-gratification. You appear to be looking for a different kind of stage for yourself and your perceived abilities. In becoming a teacher, your attention and energy must shift from yourself to the welfare of your students. What do you really have to offer people with so little experience yourself?
Let's say you find yourself in front of a roomful of hopeful beginning students. What are you going to do with a beginning dancer who learns even faster than you did yourself and who outdistances you within the first few weeks when you've taught her all you've learned yourself? How are you going to feel when you get a more advanced student in your beginning class who already knows more than you do but doesn't have the self confidence to move into a higher level class? Do you know how to deal with the painfully shy student, the incurable talker, the person who argues about every word you say? What do you do with a student who faints dead away during class?
And worst of all, how are you going to feel if a student is injured because you didn't catch a dangerous posture or bad habit in time?
There is more to teaching than being a fast learner. Do yourself and your potential students a favor and put your energy into being a student yourself before you leap into teaching others.
Let's say you find yourself in front of a roomful of hopeful beginning students. What are you going to do with a beginning dancer who learns even faster than you did yourself and who outdistances you within the first few weeks when you've taught her all you've learned yourself? How are you going to feel when you get a more advanced student in your beginning class who already knows more than you do but doesn't have the self confidence to move into a higher level class? Do you know how to deal with the painfully shy student, the incurable talker, the person who argues about every word you say? What do you do with a student who faints dead away during class?
And worst of all, how are you going to feel if a student is injured because you didn't catch a dangerous posture or bad habit in time?
There is more to teaching than being a fast learner. Do yourself and your potential students a favor and put your energy into being a student yourself before you leap into teaching others.