Hello to all
I am unsure of how many pupils one teacher can teach in one lesson, myself and my wife have just started dance lessons over the last couple of weeks and the owner / teacher is inviting more and more people to come and join, he is to me just in it for the money as the amount he has at the moment is approx 60 in one class and only himself and a intermediate student to help him with the dance steps to me this seems to much as he has no way of seeing if all students are doing right or doing wrong with the time he has got for each piece of music

Could anyone clarify the amount that one teacher can teach, I would be much appreciated
Thanks

Steve and Debbie (UK)

Hi,
I've been doing the dance for the last couple of years. My class has always had more than 100 people, I think 60 is nothing. Keep up ur hard work.

Thanks for your reply and will bear that in mind

stedeb. Sixty is far to many for one teacher and a student.He is on the path to self destruction. As the people find they are learning very little they will go to a studio that is less crowded. The influx of new people dancing is most likely caused by the Dance Programs that have been shown just recently. Twelve couples is i would think the maximum that there should be in a class if it is dancing they wish to learn and not just walking around to music. There is always the cost to be taken into consideration. If it's dirt cheap who can complain. The saying that. You only get what you pay for". applies here.

Thanks for yor reply, i will just have to grin and bear it and hope people will drop out soon

cheers

Wow, that's a great number of people in one class. I feel like I can't learn much starting in a group over 10 couples. The teacher can seldomly give you personal advise on how to do better...and some people even don't learn the steps just by trying to copy what the teacher does.
To improve your dancing and solve personal problems you should in any case take a private lesson every now and then - and see the group lesson with so many people in there rather as a practise party :)

Generally in my opinion the number of participants is limited by the size of the dance floor.
In my classes there are 3 to 15 couples, because the room is not that big, but a no. of 30 couples is ok.
I know when I am teaching a class of 3 couples they are happy about these personal advices but I also know, if all my classes are populated badly, I can close the studio. Big classes don't destruct a studio, but help to pay immense room taxes.
How much a pupil can learn in a well populated class depends on at least two things: Does the teacher EXPLAIN well (not only showing things and hoping dancers will copy his movements) and is the pupil indivdually able to grasp information given by the teacher.
Example: When I say "In Waltz please use the heel when a forward step is at beat '1'" in a big group I won't see, whether everybody does it, but if the participants really listened, they know what to do. In case the teacher just danced the figures without EXPLANATION a pupil has no chance to learn the important points in a big group. So an instructor teaching badly has to teach smaller groups.