Getting to Know You: Student Helpers!
Today we are featuring our Student Helpers in our latest edition of “Getting to Know You”! The student teachers are part of Dance Connection’s Teacher Training Program and student teach in our classes each week.
Dance Connection believes in providing a warm, safe, and professional atmosphere where each student is cared for within the Dance Connection family. We are proud to also offer a Teacher Training Program to our more serious students. It is a forum for students to gain training in teaching as well as job responsibility. Enrollment in our Teacher Training Program will provide members with the highest standard of mentoring and guidance. Dance Connection is strongly committed to enriching and nourishing the future teachers and citizens of our community. Regardless of your future career path, Dance Connection feels confident that all members of the Teacher Training Program will leave our program having learned the important life skills of: respect, responsibility, accountability, discipline, confidence, and professionalism.
Diana Balsamo
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? Tacos
- What is your favorite subject in school? English
- What do you like about being a dancer? I like performing in front of an audience.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I joined to help kids learn to love dance.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? The opportunity for TTP has helped me realize that I love working with children.
Amelia Boschen
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? My favorite food is tacos!
- What is your favorite subject in school? I like English the best.
- What do you like about being a dancer? The best thing about being a dancer is that it’s my escape from reality. It takes your mind off of things that can bother you.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I wanted to work with younger kids and be someone they can look up to.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Being in dance has helped me with time management. Since I’m at the studio so much, I have learned to use my time for schoolwork effectively.
Elena DeJesus
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? Lo mein.
- What is your favorite subject in school? History.
- What do you like about being a dancer? I can learn different styles of movement and keeps me flexible.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I wanted to share my love of dance.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? I’ve learned discipline and confidence from dance.
Jamie Martinez
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? Spaghetti with meatballs.
- What is your favorite subject in school? Science.
- What do you like about being a dancer? I can express my feelings in a different way.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? Teaching a student how to do combos.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Always be kind to others you never know what they may be going through.
Alexa Rivera
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? My favorite food is tacos.
- What is your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject in school is math.
- What do you like about being a dancer? What I like about being a dancer is when we do fundraisers for organizations. I also like being able to perform for others and express my emotions.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? What made me want to join the Teacher Training Program is that I loved the idea of helping teach dance to younger students.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Something from dance that has helped me in school or in life has been the responsibility that I have developed at dance and how to take constructive criticism knowing that it is all to help me get better at what I am doing.
Genesis Romero
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? French fries.
- What is your favorite subject in school? Art.
- What do you like about being a dancer? What I like is how one day you can be an amazing dancer and go on broadway!
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I love helping little kids and watching them become amazing dancers.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? In gym class we did “Just Dance” and I was in dance for so long I was able to memorize the dance steps.
Aine Sforza
Student Helper
- What is your favorite food? I love Cheese Pizza.
- What is your favorite subject in school? Science, because you find out a lot of interesting things about the world and space.
- What do you like about being a dancer? That I get to make great memories with my friends and I love learning new choreography.
- What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? The little kids are so cute and it’s so much fun to teach especially when the kids say something funny.
- What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Dance has taught me to work hard for the things that I want to accomplish.