Today we are featuring our Student Teachers 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.
Sophia DeRosa
Samantha Gut
Ava Michels
Sophia DeRosa
Sophia DeRosa
Student Teacher
What is your favorite food? My favorite food is spaghetti.
What is your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject in school is science.
What do you like about being a dancer? I like that I get to go to a studio where basically everyone is friends and that I get to express myself through my dancing.
What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I wanted to join because the people I looked up to we’re doing it.
What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? To focus on yourself before anyone else.
Samantha Gut
Samantha Gut
Student Teacher
What is your favorite food? My favorite food is Japanese food.
What is your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject in school is social studies.
What do you like about being a dancer? What I like about being a dancer is how I can express how I’m feeling through the movement and going to dance class is the best part of my day.
What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? When I was a kid, I always looked up to my student helpers and teachers and always wanted to have that same impact on others.
What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Dance has helped me in other places by all the speeches and talks I have had with all of the other teachers, in my daily life.
Ava Michels
Ava Michels
Student Teacher
What is your favorite food? Chicken
What is your favorite subject in school? History
What do you like about being a dancer? I like being a dancer because I can express myself freely.
What made you want to join the Teacher Training Program? I wanted to join the Teacher Training Program to share my love of dance and I thought the shirts were cool.
What’s something from dance that’s helped you in school or somewhere else in life? Dance helps me become more responsible.
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