teacher? read this!

I just read a very insightful, well developed post by Lori, co-owner and operator of Wild Lily Dance Centre. It's about the qualities that make a great dance teacher. I found myself reading and nodding and thinking "yeah, totally!" and I wanted to share this with you.

In the future, I know I'll be passing this post around to anyone when this topic comes up.

My favourite bit:

We all take a little of our teachers with us into our classes with us, and if we are complimented on our teaching, we have our ‘ancestors’ to thank.

At the end of the piece, she thanked her teachers. This is something Rachel Brice has also done whenever I've studied with her. We tend to put our teachers on pedestals because they're amazing, and so it's nice not only for the acknowledgement, but for the reminder that even the greatest teacher should still be someone else's student.

And thank you to my teachers, right from the beginning of my dance (and in very random order), whether I've studied with them once or a thousand times--Lisa, Linda, Marie, Monique, Dounia, Mardi, Lynn, Heather, Andrea, Meagan, Rachel, Rhonda, Mira, Margaret, and Audra.