Teaching Belly Dance: 52 Lesson Plans: And How to Write 5,000 More

by Sara Shrapnell

Do you struggle to come up with creative, interesting, structured lesson plans for your students? Are you looking for ways to structure your own, at home, practice sessions?
Here we have so much more than just 52 lesson plans for beginner or mixed ability level classes from Sara Shrapnell, writer of "Teaching Belly Dance".
In the spirit of “Teach a man to fish”, learn the formula used to build the 52 lesson plans, so that you can go forward with plans that better suit your students or your teaching style, lessons for more advanced students and lessons that suit your own dance philosophy.
The book How the lesson plans are structured; How to adapt them for your students; How to write your own lesson plans; A brief overview of notes; One page per lesson, for you to photocopy or scan; All rights to teach the content to your students; Tips and tricks to making lesson planning and teaching easier; How to structure your semesters; Detailed plans for topic or choreography lead semsters; Lesson plans for teachers who are ill or injured; and much more!

204 pages, Paperback

Published July 3, 2023

About the author

Sara Shrapnell is a belly dance writer, teacher and performer. Originally from the UK but now teaching in the Bay Area of San Francisco, she is the writer of two major belly dance books:
“Teaching Belly Dance”, the book about setting up, planning, teaching and enjoying belly dance classes.
“Becoming a Belly Dancer: From student to stage”, the stagecraft handbook for belly dancers.
She has taught over 4,000 belly dance lessons. She continues to teach, both in person and via the internet, classes and workshops for dancers all around the world.