My daughter has recently received her options form to choose what she would like to take for her GCSE exams and she would like to take History, Business Studies and either Dance or PE/Sport.
She's always wanted to be some sort of teacher and although she wants to take dance rather than sport, I think that sport has more open opportunities and jobs for her. I want the best for her and I see that teaching PE has more opportunities. Also, the sport programme has some aspects of dance in it too. So - I was thinking that she could take sport for GCSE and seeing as shes been taking dance classes since she was 4 and still does now, she could pick up a dance teaching course so she can teach both sport and dance after her GCSE's or A-levels.
Does anyone know if she can take teacher training course for dance even if she hasn't taken it for GCSE? Hopefully her dance school does IDTA teacher grade so she doesnt have to take a seperate course.
Also - she only takes ballet lessons, so could she broaden her horizions even though she hasn't taken anything else that takes exams? She would like to teach tap, jazz, gymnastics dance, irish and cheerleading or freestyle/street dance. I know thats a lot and she doesn't neccersarily have to do all of them, but could she still do some sort of teacher qualification for it even though she has never done it, or take adult classes to go through the grades then take the teacher exam?
Many Thanks!!
