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Article: Putting the teaching back into aerobics: making your students feel like more than a membership number. (includes quiz)
- Article from:
- American Fitness
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Some students don't see conscientious fitness instructors as educators, as teachers who care about students and share their knowledge with classes. Somehow, fitness instructors have gained a reputation of being performers, not educators. It's easy to see how such a problem originates. Aerobic exercise attracts instructors from different backgrounds. Some, such as dancers, enter the field as performers.
Many instructors start to move away from teaching and toward performing. The most significant difference between teaching and performing is the effect on aerobic students. Teachers put students' needs first--performers, their own. This article shows how both styles ...