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Originally Posted by Sparkles ...I then feel it's quite nice when the teacher utters 'those dreaded words' to clap my partner and smile and say 'that was really nice', or some such thing. (I do hope this doesn't sound terribly patronising?? It's certainly only meant in an encouraging and friendly way!). |
Reminds me of once at a morning meeting as a student we were asked to turn to another person and say 'you're looking great this morning' - I turned round and the guy behind was really cute!
I ended up muttering something like 'that's a nice jumper!'
Anyway, back to classes, a local salsa teacher here often does a 'line up' at the end of a beginners class, with him signalling steps, turns etc from the front. Its fairly simple, you don't need a partner so everyone can do it together whereever they are in the rotation and even if someone had been struggling with the moves in that class they can do the line up. So it ends the class with everyone participating and doing familiar, at least if you get some steps wrong, you can look at the teacher/people around you and find your place again. Works really well with beginners.
I suppose in a similar way clapping at the end is part of that 'shared group experience' and enhances that feeling of 'I learnt something!' even if the person hasn't got every move right, they have learnt something. But I agree that clapping too often, midway etc just makes it meaningless and forced.