Methods for Maintaining and Stimulating Motivation in Choreographic Disciplines
Methods for Maintaining and Stimulating Motivation in Choreographic Disciplines

Summary/Abstract: The teacher's ability to stimulate the students' motivation is very important. Not onlyto stimulate students' motivation, but also to teach them how to motivate themselves.I have chosen four methods that I consider important and effective to succeed:organization, self-monitoring, personal development journal, motivational optimumand individual tutoring. The first method, organization, depends on the work of theteacher and his skill to manage efficiently the time for each part of the course. In thisway the rhythm of the course will be uniform and the students won't lose theirattention. The second method, self-monitoring, is based on the REBT technique. Idesigned it in the form of a journal in which students should wrote their own emotionsbefore, during and after a competition or a show. With the main steps of the REBTtechnique they will find the way to transform the negative emotions and thoughts inpositive ones. The third method, motivational optimum, is about the teacher's abilityto dose gradually for each student the corrections and the new information. And thelast method, individual tutoring, depends on the capability of the teacher to managetheir time for each student to offer individual corrections.

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