Breakthrough Begins

The fun starts in three days.

Training week went by too slowly. I had already gone through all of it last year; I just wanted to teach, to see my students again.

The teacher staff this year is cool. Everyone’s likeable, but, so far, we’re not as cohesive as last year. There has yet to be any discussion of spending a weekend all together. Everyone just wants to sleep/work on lesson plans/live their own lives whenever they have free time. For next weekend, I’ll pitch the idea of going to the SF gay pride parade. I know there is definitely a good amount of people in the staff who would like to go.

So my dance class is looking a bit different than how I imagined it to be. Instead of teaching the same class of students for the entire six weeks, I’m instead going to teach two different classes of students, each one lasting only three weeks. I really wanted to teach six so my students could perfect a really dope piece and perform it on celebration night, and I actually had the option of keeping my non-academic class at six weeks.

However, all the other non-academic classes were either one to three weeks, and I figured that it would be better to split my class into two three-week classes. I weighed my pros and cons, and I decided that ultimately, the main goal was to spark an interest in dancing in as many middle school students as possible. Not to get everyone absolutely perfect for the celebration night performance (especially since I’m not perfect) and not to boost my pride by owning the hell out of last summer’s celebration night performance. There’s even a chance that there won’t be a dance performance that night this summer because only academic electives are confirmed to put on something.

So, to reiterate my main goal for my two dance classes: I want to share my interest for dancing with my students and get them to fall in love with it the same way I did.