Yasmine Bint Al Nubia
Moderator
Hi Everyone, I have a question for the experienced teachers on the forum,but certainly students are free to answer as well. What do you think is the major reason students quit dance lessons?
My teacher and I often have this discussion, to help us guage the effectiveness of our teaching often we realize it has a lot to do with the students themselves. We teach a 12 week curriculum and about the 4th or 5th week students begin to drop off.
Here are some of our observations:
1)It's time to pay again for the next session of classes. Many of our students can't afford to pay for 12 weeks up front.
2)It's a lot harder than they thought. Many of our students are non-dancers, and it's about this time they are incorporating arm movements in addition to hip moves.
3)Low self-esteem/confidence. The student is constantly disparaging themselves even when they are doing well.
4) Real life interrupts dance classes.
For our brand new beginners, we focus more on posture(really hard for them), basic moves and "listening" to the music than on the performance aspect.
Do you guys have anything else to add?
Yasmine
My teacher and I often have this discussion, to help us guage the effectiveness of our teaching often we realize it has a lot to do with the students themselves. We teach a 12 week curriculum and about the 4th or 5th week students begin to drop off.
Here are some of our observations:
1)It's time to pay again for the next session of classes. Many of our students can't afford to pay for 12 weeks up front.
2)It's a lot harder than they thought. Many of our students are non-dancers, and it's about this time they are incorporating arm movements in addition to hip moves.
3)Low self-esteem/confidence. The student is constantly disparaging themselves even when they are doing well.
4) Real life interrupts dance classes.
For our brand new beginners, we focus more on posture(really hard for them), basic moves and "listening" to the music than on the performance aspect.
Do you guys have anything else to add?
Yasmine