Dance Teaching and Facilitating
Entry requirements
Entry for this course is by online application, teaching observation and interview. Applicants can choose to be observed and interviewed in-person or by-video. More information below.
Please note: an enhanced DBS check is required for those working with children and young people whilst on placement. This is processed on your behalf by NSCD.
Applications close at midnight on 20 May for in-person observation and interviews week commencing 27 May.
Video applications close midday on Monday 24 June
Months of entry
September
Course content
Advance your knowledge and skills as a teacher and facilitator of dance. Choose to focus on contemporary, ballet, commercial and/or street styles, with placements tailored to your interests.
This course is suitable for graduates of three-year dance degree programmes or those with equivalent educational/professional experience. It is suitable for both international students looking to develop their teaching skills and for students familiar with the UK education system who want to work in this environment.
Whatever your career aims, this course will equip you with the key teaching skills you need to succeed in this field and enable you to apply them in a variety of contexts.
Information for international students
NSCD is proud of the diversity of the students it attracts and over recent years 30% of our total students have joined us from outside the UK from over 25 different countries. Many of our teaching staff are also from outside of the UK. The diversity of cultures at the school enhances our creativity and broadens the learning experience on offer.
NSCD is an international centre of excellence offering specialist, conservatoire-level contemporary dance training.
For more information regarding support head to https://www.nscd.ac.uk/study/overseas-students/
Fees and funding
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MA
- part time22 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time11 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
The course is designed to enhance all elements of your practice, with teaching covering individual lesson planning, developing a curriculum, how to cater for the full range of learners, creating an inclusive environment and how to develop a research-led teaching practice. It is divided into the following modules:
Dance Teaching and Learning in Context
Inclusive Creative Practice
Dance Workshop Design and Planning
Professional Practice
Independent Action Research Project
Course contact details
- Name
- NSCD Admissions Team
- info@nscd.ac.uk
- Phone
- 0113 219 3000