Re: [TANGO-L] Detecting sham and incompetent Teachers

[astrid <astrid @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>]

> 7)A teacher doesn't seem to have sufficient dedication to Tango. A truly
dedicated teacher has enough interest in Tango to go beyond the actual dance
itself. Almost everything about Tango needs to be of interest to the
teacher. Things such as the music, Tango personalities, Tango history, etc.
A teacher can convey such info to the student in bits and snippets.
>
> 8)A teacher needs to tell students (even beginners) about Tango-L, Tango-A
and other Tango related websites. He should have bibliographies of books,
videos and CD's (or at least he can refer students to sources or others who
have)
>
> 9)A teacher doesn't name techniques, figures and steps that are being
taught. (Terms and names are best given in Spanish because a foreign
language is freer of the non-tango related connotations and associations
then ones own native language has.)
> If a teacher doesn't know the names of what he is teaching, one needs to
wonder how much the teacher actually knows.
> If a teacher knows but won't give names of what he is teaching, the
teacher is probably attempting to control how rapidly a student is learning
with the intent of keeping the student in the teacher's classes as long as
possible.
> 11)A teacher doesn't encourage note taking.
>
> 13)A lot of what is being taught is not being retained by a student.>
> 21)A teacher who is unwilling to repeat or review prior material as often
as is needed. I have already mentioned elsewhere in this posting a type of
class structure that will accommodate this.

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I would like to change the name of this thread to "Detecting sham and
incompetent students"
I am a teacher myself, even though it is not tango I teach, and I can tell
you the kind of students that seriously wear down my patience:

7) A student who comes to class but shows no interest whatsoever into the
background of what I am teaching. He never spends any of his free time going
to the library trying to read up on things out of a deeper interest. At the
same time, he blames me for not spoon feeding him any kind of information he
is too lazy to study alone, and blames me if class time is not enough time
to cover the all the necessary self study.

8) A student who asks me about every little thing that he could easily find
out by himself if he tried. He keeps trying to burn up my energy instead of
his own.

9) A student who gets all hung up on technicalities instead of trying to
master the material itself without constantly theorising about it.

11) A student who is constantly bent over his notes when he should be
communicating and be with what's going on in class instead.

13) A student whose brain functions like a strainer because he never reviews
the material on his own and practises in his free time.

21) A student who always comes unprepared and then expects me to do his
reviewing and memorising with him, because he does not want to do his
homework by himself in his free time.

Now, you tango teachers out there, do you and I have anything in common
inthe way we see our students ?

Astrid



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