Replace "I spending" with "I spend" Guideline 6: proofread your messages before you send them.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Dale Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > And since I'm on the subject. I spending a lot of time thinking about how > to teach dance moves during a workshop and during a walk-thru (they are > different.) > > A couple guidelines: > > 1: Make it concrete. "Gents look at each other." That's concrete. Look > at the place your neighbor is standing -- that's concrete (ish) Imagine a > slice of pizza. Nope. > 2) Avoid analogies like the plague (you are thinking of a swarm of > locusts, but I meant a rat-borne bacterial infection) Ricochet hey is > just like a slice of pizza as long as the pizza is six feet in diameter and > sliced in fourths rather than sixths or eights. > 3) Try to serve up the teaching in bite-sized chunks (ooh--an analogy). > Teach half a hey, not a full hey, first, then put two of them together once > they've made it through the simpler version. > 4) If you've got an unusual mental model of a particular move that really > helps you get the feel for it --- FORGET IT! I once watched a caller try > to teach a swing by explaining that it's playing air-guitar while riding a > skateboard [I am not making this up!] Needless to say the new dancers were > confused. > 5) Don't teach advanced techniques to new dancers. Forget the buzz step. > Forget the twirls. Teach the simplest moves that get the dancer from point > A to point B facing the correct direction. Other dancers will take care > of adding the refinements (give's them a chance to show off (er... I mean > be helpful)) > > Dale > > -- Turn Observation into Data. Turn Data into Information <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Information>. Turn Information into Knowledge. Turn Knowledge into Wisdom. Turn Wisdom into Beauty. Turn Beauty into Love .
