Comments on: Dance Class http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/04/26/dance-class/ By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:16:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Judy http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/04/26/dance-class/#comment-1176 Judy Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:28:14 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2007/04/26/dance-class/#comment-1176 Having been a dance teacher myself many years ago, I used this trick. I used to simply stand at the front of the room and say nothing (and stop the music, as well). Eventually, students noticed the "silence" -- which spoke far louder than anything I could have said. All it took was a couple of times doing this for it to eventually become "habit" (the habit being that once the dance run-through was completed, they didn't congregate into micro-conversations and awaited further instruction from me). Hope this helps! Judy :-) Having been a dance teacher myself many years ago, I used this trick. I used to simply stand at the front of the room and say nothing (and stop the music, as well). Eventually, students noticed the “silence” — which spoke far louder than anything I could have said. All it took was a couple of times doing this for it to eventually become “habit” (the habit being that once the dance run-through was completed, they didn’t congregate into micro-conversations and awaited further instruction from me).

Hope this helps!

Judy :-)

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