by DTEI Editor | Aug 3, 2022 | Blogs
This week’s post is part 3 of the series inspired by the panel I hosted with UCI coaches/artists on April 20, 2022 (watch the panel recording here). In this post, I would like to focus on an interesting idea that a coach shared as a lesson they learned from an...
by DTEI Editor | Aug 3, 2022 | Blogs
Listening to coaches speak during our panel on April 20, 2022 (watch the panel recording here), I was struck by how often coaches’ actions are actually “feedback” to a player that they are not doing well! One of the most obvious is the action of taking a player...
by DTEI Editor | Aug 3, 2022 | Blogs
On April 20, 2022, I hosted a special panel that brought together a group of UCI coaches, art directors, and dance faculty to discuss different approaches to teaching a class. This panel generated a number of surprise thoughts, and I decided to dive in and explore...
by DTEI Editor | Aug 3, 2022 | Blogs
In these blog posts, I have written about standards from a variety of perspectives. When I first shifted from student to instructor, I remember being struck by how challenging the concept of standards really was. A core challenge I see over and over results from the...
by DTEI Editor | Aug 3, 2022 | Blogs
Most people that listen to me talk about teaching are probably tired of hearing me compare it to coaching. This is part of the reason I added a comparison to conducting an orchestra to my repertoire, despite having never actually conducted for real! However, as I...
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