ELIGIBILITY & EXPECTATIONS

Depending on your background,  CDA teacher training may establish, supplement, or embellish your aptitude as a dance educator or professional. Courses offered may be taken while one is still dancing, teaching dance, even working as a ballet master or choreographer. Enrollees in the CDA Teacher Certification Program vary in their ages, roles, and experience, but all see the exceptional value, added to their work, from a rigorous pedagogical perspective.

 

Every enrollee should have the ability to

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• Follow oral instructions and understand spacing and stage directions

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• Read written materials from a manual in English and later give verbal instructions
  in English to students or collaborators

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• Draw upon a general understanding of ballet vocabulary and terminology

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• Apply sufficient musicality to discern proper accompaniment to exercises and combinations

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• Execute physically or aptly mark out movements so as to gain a thorough understanding
  of those movements and their structure musically

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Skills acquired by CDA course enrollees include

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• Developing student proficiency in elementary, intermediate, and advanced work, 
  consistent with courses completed​

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• Composing lesson plans with properly constructed exercises and combinations

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• Teaching progressively from primary to advanced forms as steps and combinations 
  increase in difficulty and complexity 

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• Instructing with correct use of the vocabulary, instead of demonstrating 

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• Applying basic principles such as use of the poses to train dancers more effectively, 
  and confidently harness tools acquired to realize endless possibilities