TA-DAH! Teaching Assistant Program

We are proud to offer student teacher positions to our older dancers. This program gives them the opportunity to share their love of dance while developing leadership, responsibility, and confidence. For our younger dancers, having a student teacher in the classroom is incredibly inspiring—they see a role model who was once in their shoes and who now helps guide them along their own dance journey.

Being a student teacher is a truly rewarding experience. It allows our dancers to give back to the studio community, deepen their understanding of dance, and discover the joy that comes from helping younger dancers learn and grow.

Dancers interested in being a TA must fulfill the following requirements:

Teaching assistants (TAs) must be at least 13 years old.
TAs must take an age-appropriate Ballet class and at least one additional class.
TAs must wear proper dance attire to all classes. This means a leotard and tights or fitted athletic tops and shorts/leggings, as well as the appropriate shoes for your class (ballet shoes for ballet, tap shoes for tap, etc.). No street clothes, sweatshirts/sweatpants, etc. Hair must be pulled up off of your face for all classes.
TAs must have reliable transportation to and from the studio on their assigned class day.
TAs must have the maturity and disposition to deal with children in a busy dance class.
TAs must have reached an acceptable level of efficiency in their own dance training and must continue to demonstrate focus and hard work in their own classes.
TAs must use their voice when appropriate in the classroom. When you see behavior that is inappropriate or has been previously addressed by the instructor, speak up!
Being an assistant in the past does not guarantee that you will automatically be an assistant again. TAs must work to their fullest potential and show growth and maturity (in both the younger classes and their own classes) to continue as a teaching assistant.
After class assignments are distributed, all TAs and their parents must sign and return a contract acknowledging your commitment to this program for the entire dance year.