Online trainings usually feel impersonal because quote often everything is automated. However, with SLDM, there are plenty of opportunities for interactions with the teacher/coach. As a result, it felt more personal, and I felt more naturally motivated to pay attention and do well. I had a great deal of opportunities to interact with Myles & […]
I really enjoyed the online Theory Module and strongly recommend to anybody who wants to get even more professional as a professional teacher – and even as just a dancer – the lessons helped a lot to gain a deeper understanding of how to approach a West Coast Swing Dance class – thanks to Myles […]
Myles and Tessa emphasize the need for a serious, professional approach to teaching dance. The stakes of teaching dance are at least as high as being a physical trainer or coach because the student’s ego and emotional well-being are even more at risk in dance than in other non-dance physical training. Therefore they advocate and […]
Myles and Tessa’s extensive experience in teaching and competing in this dance gives them an authoritative insight into the questions of: “What is WCS and what is the best way to teach it?” Their approach unifies the worlds of contemporary and classic WCS by identifying the essential core of the dance and the best ways to […]
Learning how best to convey these concepts to students was golden. The assignments were very demanding as you actually have to apply what you learned instead of simply regurgitate it. I’d recommend this to anyone wanting to teach WCS and give your students the best possible chance of coming out of the series with solid fundamentals that […]
The SDLM course for me was like a eureka moment, finally understanding what I had been missing. As a WCS dancer, so many long-time outstanding questions were immediately satisfied. Having a path connecting the common ideas together, often in logical causal ways, creating real understanding, gives a real level of confidence to build my dance […]
I felt like this program gave me a very solid way to break down concepts, and gave me a solid sequence which is easy to stick to in each lesson. This also helped increase my confidence as a teacher a lot, because I used to just try to “wing it” and teach based on what […]
When I signed up for this program, I expected a what-to-do training session; how to teach the basics, and in what order. To my surprise, they didn’t give us any of this information. Yes, there was a metric ton of materials provided, but they gave us the tools to answer these questions for ourselves. This […]
Up until this course, I had a mish mash of information and concepts drawn from various teachers and from my own experience, but I didn’t have a logical, consistent structure to provide a framework for it all. This is absolutely going to me give me more confidence (much needed), as now I feel like I […]
I loved it. I thought the way it was presented and how it flowed was good for how I learn. I think it took me longer to complete because I would read articles and then mull over them and try to think how that worked or changed the way I would teach. It was very […]
