I see two different ideas in this thread:
1. Teachers should be financially encouraged to dance more with their punters or 'customers'
2. Teachers should be financially encouraged to offer feedback and advice
I agree with both,
For 1. because for most beginners / improvers, dancing with the teacher can make their night and they are often too shy or not confident enough to ask them for a dance. Plus this helps raising the overall level of dancing at the venue. Also watching them dancing is usually enternaining / inspiring for most people, so this should have positive consequences on the frequentation of the venue.
For 2. well obviously cause it helps increasing the level of dancers at the venue and the better ... well the better really. But their is an issue there with feedback as usual, it must be done in a sensitive way, we have to remember that not everybody is there to improve their dancing, some just enjoy the social side of things and have no desire to improve / work on their dancing. So a teacher giving unsollicited feedback to somebody who's happy with their dancing might just put them off. But I trust most teachers are clever enough people to 'target' feedback to the right people and do that tactfully.
I think that any incentive that promotes teachers to be more pro-active with their punters and really transmit their passion of dancing (not just from the stage) should be encouraged. And a financial interest is usually a good incentive.
I don't know the conditions of remuneration for ceroc teachers, but shouldn't there be some sort of reward for those assessed* as good teachers* who make their venue succesful (and eventually raise lots of money for ceroc?).
*obviously those terms can be discussed, i.e. how do you assess that a teacher is good and what is good... but that's not the subject here.
I'm also aware that a venue which is struggling with number might be run by a very good teacher and the attendance level can be due to other factors than just the teacher. Let's say this is considered as part of the 'assessment'...
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