ending lesson time

ballroomdancertoo

ballroomdancertoo

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How do you end your lessons with your instructor. do you look at the time and say its time or do you wait till your instructor tells you its time? sometimes it feels funny to say to the instructor that the lesson is finished so I would like to know people's comments.
 
I've kept my eye on the clock to be sure that I'm getting all the questions I brought with me answered before my hour is up. If the lesson seems to end, as in, we've accomplished what she needed us to do, and it's the end of the hour, we hug, tells us we're working hard and to do X, Y, and Z at our practices that week, then she walks us to the credit card machine. :hilarious:

But sometimes, we'll be in the heat of learning something and we'll be very close to the look/timing/shaping/connection/whatever she wants, so we go into overtime - she's gone over with us 30 minutes sometimes. I'll be watching the clock and she shows no signs of slowing down, so hey, why stop her? :D She knows if she has another lesson after ours, so if she's not slowing down, I take this to mean she's got the time available and I'm not about to tell her we're finished if she wants to keep going!
 
ballroomdancertoo said:
luck you. so it doesn't bother you that you are getting a "freebe:)"? I guess it's like an unspoken thing...
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Hey - she's the studio owner. It's her choice. Also, we're a different breed of "typical student" - competitive amateurs with a serious work ethic. She knows we love to dance, she knows we work hard, and she's told us before that she loves working with us because of it. She's investing in our training and our partnership and my partner and I are grateful to have a coach like her.
 
it's good to have that relationship with your instructor. I just started a new instructor and I keep worrying about when it's time to finish.
 
ballroomdancertoo said:
I keep worrying about when it's time to finish.
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I wouldn't. Your job is to be present and learn everything that you can, not to keep the instructor on schedule. They'll keep an eye on the clock. You just need to keep your focus on them.

Like s2k, I might keep an eye on the clock (like looking at once it if it feels like we've been working awhile) to make sure I can cover what I need over the lesson - I often work 2 or 3 dances per lesson. And I may also look if I have to go to the washroom or something, and am deciding whether I can wait until we finish or need to declare a pause... or if I'm dying and trying to decide if I'll survive x more minutes... but that's about it :)
 
s2k said:
Hey - she's the studio owner. It's her choice. Also, we're a different breed of "typical student" - competitive amateurs with a serious work ethic. She knows we love to dance, she knows we work hard, and she's told us before that she loves working with us because of it. She's investing in our training and our partnership and my partner and I are grateful to have a coach like her.
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Plus her studio gains street cred (floor cred?) if you do well at comps. TANSTAAFL.
 
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Well, I will put out a different perspective. First, as several of you mentioned, I keep track of the time to make sure that I have asked any questions I needed to, etc. (Dance specific or schedule related. If I can get scheduling done without taking up lesson or dinner break time, terrific, but if not it should come out of my lesson time, not the next student's. )The part that is different is that, well, yeah, it is the teacher's job to keep track of time, but not everybody is always perfect. ;) It sometimes makes studio life run much more smoothly for everybody if students as well as teachers are aware of time, particularly if there is a lesson with waiting student(s). It is the teacher's job to say, "we're running 5 minutes late" to the waiting student, but if he doesn't, I do. I can't concentrate on my lesson if I don't in any case. :rolleyes: And we're all a pretty friendly bunch--it's not as if I'm talking to a stranger.
 
I also think think it's the instructor's purview to pay attention to time (or not). As a student, if I'm told to do it one more time, I do it one more time. I'll never look at the clock and say, "no we're done."
 
My teacher always runs over time. At the beginning of the lesson we both set a plan that is reasonable for the tI've available the. Finish when the plan is mostly complete. This is also the teacher who ran 30 mins over on a 6 hour boot camp
 
As an instructor, I don't know if I've ever had a student point out that it was time...but then, I'm generally pretty militant about staying on schedule. I might run a few minutes over if I don't have any more lessons and it's needed, but that's my prerogative. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
 
Lately just fine tuning competition routines.

He usually has me go through a whole routine all out after working on specific elements that may or may not make it into the routine. We record it and then he watches it... Often deciding whether or not to keep it in the routine.
 
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