Dance lesson plans

Have you thought about teaching ballet to elementary students? Even if you're not a dancer, teaching ballet can be a fun and meaningful addition to your classroom dance curriculum.

In this blog post, you'll find essential things to remember when creating dance lesson plans, as well as some tips for making the lesson planning process easier for dance teachers of all ages, skill levels, and dance genres. By following the tips in the post, you'll be able to design more effective dance lesson plans that keep your students engaged in their training and improving their skills!

Get your dance class off on the right foot! This blog post highlights four crucial habits dance teachers should adopt in the first six weeks to inspire success and passion in their students. Discover how to lay a solid foundation for a stellar year, foster creativity, and nurture a love for dance! Perfect for new dance instructors and seasoned veterans alike.

A free printable for dance teachers to help with lesson plans!

Dance phrases (or movement phrases) are short and have a defined beginning, middle, and ending making them an ideal addition to your dance lesson plans.

I am going to post Preschool Dance Lesson Plans that my colleagues and I wrote in our Techniques of Teaching Dance class at BYU-Idaho. Each lesson plan uses a theme to teach the three elements of dance to preschoolers- time, energy, and space. These are really fun, cute ideas for encouraging creativity in each individual child and I have successfully used a few of these lesson plans and intend to use all of them. So exciting! I only have hard copies of the lesson plans, so I've been scanning…

Hey there, dancers and welcome back to From The Top! Today we are back with volume 2 of one of our newest community favorites: our “Across The Floor Jazz Routine”! That’s right, a new Jazz class companion has hit the FTT streets! In this routine, we’ll be upping the ante a little bit with multiple…

Use ballet bingo printable to keep dancers engaged and learning. Test their ballet terminology by playing ballet bingo! Great exercise for all ages, just modify to fit the group. Blank spaces available for the dance teacher or students to put in terminology they are working on. Great for dance classes and dance teacher lesson planning.