If you are an educator or plan to make your career as one, but you are unable to attend university full time, then you may want to consider getting your teaching degree online. There are many online education schools which offer you several online teaching degrees which can enable you to become an educator or a teacher and pursue your calling.As an educator, you can find employment opportunities in several functions like an Elementary School teacher, a Middle School teacher, High School teacher, as a School Principal, as a Reading Specialist, a Private Tutor, and even as an Music Education Specialist. You can even work as a Kindergarten Teacher, a Teacher’s Aide, a Superintendent, an ESL (English as a Second Language) Teacher, and even a Special Education teacher.For working in any of these positions, you will have to have a Degree in Education. There are several Bachelors Degrees in Education where you can specialize in either of these subjects.If you are already working in any other job, or have family issues due to which you cannot attend classes full time at the university, then you may consider getting your Degree online. There are many colleges and universities which offer online degree courses. If you are already an educator and want to get your degree so that you can be certified to teach in your subject area, then too, getting a degree online will come in handy for you.You can start off by getting a Bachelors Degree in Education and continue with a Masters and even a Doctoral Degree with an Education major. When you study for these degrees online, you can work while you are studying. The schedules can be quite flexible and you can pace yourself while you study. You can work through the course at a slower pace as well, if that makes balancing your life easier.Nowadays almost all of the top universities offer courses online. You will be offered courses in the form of online classes and presentations which you can access online. You will also have to refer to several standard textbooks and reference books. You will typically be provided with the list of the books required for your study at the beginning of the course.
The Belly Dancer Within You
What will you discover when you take belly dancing classes?
Belly dancing lessons have been taken by thousands of women worldwide. If this dance provides a positive outlet of joy for you; it will become addictive. It becomes addictive because it will satisfy the pleasure centers of your being.
This dance is not for every woman, but for those who master it, it unveils their identity, strengths, and opens a world which enables confidence to pursue their dreams.
Why do women like belly dancing?
Women like belly dancing because:
- It makes you feel happy
- It satisfies your creativity
- It is attractive to those who study other cultures and their history
- It challenges the physical body, mental discipline, and emotional control
- It builds confidence, self-esteem and self-confidence
- It becomes a personal achievement
- Reshaping the body and losing weight
- Love of costumes and makeup
- Wearing beautiful jewelry and head pieces
- Wearing ethnic costuming
- Being comfortable with the female body
- Love of dance for freedom of body movement
- Making new friends with varied interests
- Performing
- Career
This dance is very motivating as it allows personal growth. It is a creative outlet which leads to many activities. In addition to the dance women take interests in photography, making costumes, creating jewelry designs, and designing choreography. There are also other art and craft attractions such as painting, sculpting, doll making, and writing.
As she discovers her strengths in this dance art she feels more free and fearless of expressing her independence. Women overcome their fears, negative self-limiting thinking, and other negative thoughts which keep them from advancing into competent and self-reliant individuals.
The other students in the classroom become friends and people who share in each others’ interests. The group becomes a support system which allows for feeling safe and comfortable. A good teacher is also valuable in guiding every individual to become the best person that she can be.
Not every student becomes a performer. Performers have to become strong psychological beings with confident knowledge. These traits give strength for stage survival and for non-performers strength for daily living.
Belly dancers become passionate about their art because it brings joy and happiness to their everyday living. These feelings of pleasure will override many of the challenging or negative experiences which are faced on a daily basis.
If the dancer feels that she has had a rough and tumble day, she needs only to find a quiet space and dance to her heart’s content. She revives her psychological strength, physical energy, and feels refreshed to face the day.
La La La Human Steps: Amelia
Quicksilver footwork. Chic elegance. Spidery sets and black net costumes cool enough to belong on the cover of Vogue. La La La Human Steps is where ballet and high fashion collide; where traditional movements are redefined into present-day relevance. The choreography is an interplay of speed and extremes, physical challenge blended with lyricism that has brought the Canadian ballet company to international renown. But it is their unique blend of innovative dance vocabulary, contemporary music and cinematic effects that differentiates them from other ballet companies of their caliber.
The dancers are classically trained but add sports training to build adequate strength for the leg-whipping, gravity-defying twists and turns that each piece requires. This year, the company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new work created by founder and choreographer Edouard Lock, featuring Kirov prima ballerina Diana Vishneva, who was recently described as “the foremost classical ballerina of today” by Ballet Magazine. The North American debut of the new work will be in May at Place des Arts’ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. As of yet, there are no plans announced for a US tour.
Since the founding of La La La Human steps in 1980, Edouard Lock has collaborated with an eclectic lineup of stars, including David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Skinny Puppy and David Lang. He has created works for the Paris National Opera, the Paris Opera Ballet and Netherlands Dance Theater. Since the creation of “Human Sex” (1985), the ballet company has toured worldwide, as far as Europe and Asia, touring two years for each new production.
Their best-loved work, “Amelia” (2002), choreographed originally for the Prague opera, has been made into a film which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, followed by the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City Utah. It is a study of chic strife, dramatic emotions brought to life in the limbs of dancers, including principal dancer and muse, Louise Lecavalier. Its use of multiple angles offers a distortion of perspective that alternates at times between falling and flying. The film has won best of its category numerous international festivals, and received 2 GEMINI AWARDS for best direction and best editing, 2 ICE (individual creative excellence) awards from the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States for best direction of photography and editing, and was a finalist at the International Emmy Awards. Lock directs all of his own videos. Excerpts from the “Amelia” film can be found on YouTube.