different exams available?

[ripresa]

Spinbug's post made me wonder.. what are all the available certifications/exams that you can take as adults... or for a ballet teacher?

 

Thank you in advance.

[Redbookish]

Major Mel will have chapter and verse on this, but when I studied in the Cecchetti syllabus, you needed Intermediate & then Advanced to then enter the teacher training. You could take both Intermediate & Advanced as a student teacher, with rather less emphasis on virtuosity, if I recall correctly. But of course, no diminishment of the requirement for technical accuracy & achievement! If I hadn't been doing my PhD plus full-tie lecturing at the time, I was considering doing those exams in that way -- as a goal to work towards, more than anything.

 

I think in the RAD system, there are similar requirements -- that is, to have achieved an advanced technical standard, and then undertake specialist teacher training.

[spinbug]

I might be misinformed but I thought that you needed to have taught for a few years to even be considered for a teacher's membership in Cecchetti Council of America. I think only then can you take your teacher's exams.

I'll look again and get back with you.

[spinbug]

I might be misinformed but I thought that you needed to have taught for a few years to even be considered for a teacher's membership in Cecchetti Council of America. I think only then can you take your teacher's exams.

I'll look again and get back with you.

 

Yep, it's three years. I think if you study your student exams you might be able to go directly into teacher's exams. I just e-mailed one of the Northern Plains Committee Members and am waiting to hear back from her. I know they have regular teacher workshops and one will be held in South Dakota in October. I'm not sure about that but they may let adults attend.

 

Ripresa, I'm so glad you started this topic. I'd like to see what everyone else knows about this.