Teacher’s Courses.
Excellence in training.
Two best-in-class courses for teachers.
Alegria now offers two teacher’s courses. First, the original teachers course, the Fundamental Teacher’s Course, which Hilary Kaplan and Archibald McKenzie have developed and taught together since 1997. This course has always been highly successful and was approved by the Royal Academy of Dance under the now-defunct RAD Student Teacher Certificate Programme. ALL graduates of this course have been able to secure good teaching positions, some in Australia, some overseas in New Zealand, South East Asia and Europe, and Alegria employed some of the graduates to teach within Alegria.
The Fundamental Teacher’s Course.
The Fundamental Teacher’s Course consists of:
Intense Coaching in a syllabus (usually RAD Pre-Primary to Grade Five);
Teaching Practice;
Teaching Methodology;
Music;
Benesh Notation.
The Advanced Teacher’s Course.
Second, the Advanced Teacher’s Course from 2007 offers an extension of the skills and expertise acquired at the Fundamental Course level. It takes:
The Syllabus into the intermediate and advanced levels;
Methodology into the break-down and teaching of advanced steps;
Teaching Practice into a more advanced range of styles and methods;
Music into the area of use of recorded music for teaching and choreography.
Candidates are coached for one morning a week in Syllabus, Methodology, Music, Class and Notation. The Courses are completed by an internal Alegria examination which results in Alegria’s own documentation (report and certificate) for reference and job-seeking purposes.
Alegria’s Teacher’s Courses have proven their independent worth. Alegria's specifications are more demanding than those of many other courses, and Alegria delivers the course in a very short time - requiring a serious commitment on the part of the course candidate - but the overwhelming majority of candidates who have enrolled on the course have been inspired to do very well in it and in the related RAD Teaching Certificate Examinations.