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Maintain a professional
appearance at all times. |
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Have a pleasing voice and
personality as well as patience and confidence when working with the
students. Be willing to give that "extra" that makes American
special! |
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Gear your teaching approach to
the age and ability level of your students. You may need to adapt routines
on the spot by making the routine more beginner or more advanced! |
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Make sure that you are prepared
to teach your routines and use organized, professional teaching
techniques. You should not have to stop and review your routines on a laptop or TV in the middle of class. Have your routine notes with you, but DO NOT be dependant on them. |
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At the beginning of camp, try
to call teams and directors by their names. This is an important
personal touch. You are provided a schedule at the beginning of Managed Camps. Use it to make notes (team colors, director's hair color, etc.). |
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Avoid showing favoritism to
certain teams in any manner. If you feel that there will be a conflict of interest, let the Camp Manager as soon as possible. |
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Always assist other instructors
when they need help. |
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Ribbon watching |
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Always maintain a good public
image during camps. |
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Make sure that you are
cautious not to offend any group or director as your actions may cost
us thousands of dollars in future business.
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Staff will have
various duties and responsibilities at camps including registration,
teaching, watching for ribbons at both marching and dance classes,
selling t-shirts, demonstrating, directors seminars, etc. The
delegation of duties will be the discretion of the camp manager. |
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Dancers who are chosen
for All-American, Honorable Mention, Jr All-American and Kick Co. are
invited to perform at Special Events. Please try to remember this
as you are choosing them. They all need to be qualified performers.
Please be very aware of the girls you choose at private camps, would
they be chosen at a large camp? (See qualifications
and criteria) |
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All staff will be
required to wear staff dancewear for each and
every day of all camps. We want a professional look.
(See staff
uniform page) please make sure all items are clean and
fresh looking. |
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No petty talk of other
staff members regarding teaching, choreography, etc. It always comes
back. Staff unity is very important. Remember that this is a business
and not a social organization. Do not speak down to others. We like to treat everyone equal regardless of age or experience with American. Speak and treat others as you would like to be spoken to or treated. |
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Please use your
professional discretion regarding your nightly activities after camps
are adjourned for the evening. There will be a mandatory staff meeting
back in the dormitory or designated hotel room after daily awards are
given out. Do not leave or dismiss someone until the camp manager has
given approval. You are free to do as you wish as long as you are
fresh and alert the following morning and your activities do not reflect a poor
image in any way on you as a role model. If the administrative staff
at the camp feels you are not up to par you will be suspended without
pay for the week and reviewed for dismissal by the ADTS office administrators. |
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Discuss teams only in
private at all times. Beware of your facial expressions, your tone and your surroundings at all times (dinner, hallways, bleachers, etc.). It is best that you speak about the teams when you have returned to your dorm room or hotel room. |
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Be at least 15 minutes
early to class ready to greet students & directors. Have your sound system, extension cord, CD and ribbons ready to go at that time. |
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Use extra class time
to polish and/or review the dance or practice the camp dance. Some
camps may need to stagger dismissal for food serving purposes, you
will be instructed if you are allowed to dismiss early. If directors have requested extra practice time, you are allowed to dismiss when the routine has been completed and ribbons handed out. |
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Encourage stretching
before class begins; ask officers to lead. |
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Play the camp dance
song several times each day. |
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Seek out your
buddy team at each class time and write special notes of encouragement
throughout camp. (See staff
buddy duties) |
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Never hesitate to ask
questions. It’s better to ask than to get in
trouble for making a mistake because you did not ask. |
| Correspondence
with office |
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Routine assignments
will be made at the camp or by e-mail for private camps, please
call the office at least two weeks prior to your private camp. Always
be prepared to learn routines you did not already know! |
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Please notify Lucinda, Director
of Personnel with any concerns regarding staff relations. LuciADTS@aol.com |
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Notify the office well
in advance if you need to cancel on any assignments. |
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Adhere to all
deadlines. |
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There will be a padded envelope with the Private Camp supplies for the excess supplies to be shipped by UPS. You will just put the supplies in the envelope, discard the box, and drop the padded envelope at a Brown Box UPS location or a UPS Store. (See private
camp procedures) |
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Be sure to contact the
office on the first day of the camp to let the office know how things are going and if additional supplies need to be shipped. You may either send an email to LuciADTS@aol.com, text a message to Lucinda's cell phone, call the office and leave a message on the answering machine or call Lucinda's cell phone. Office: 800/462-5719 or Lucinda's cell: 254/913-7920 |
| Camp
assignments |
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Any staff member
teaching at a camp where their own team is attending must sit with
their team during all team and individual evaluation. Only staff
members without their own team in attendance may participate in any
evaluations at that camp. |
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Staff camp assignments
will be made on a skeleton crew basis and as camp enrollment comes in
and increases, additional staff will be added. This will prevent any
over staffing for camps. As the enrollment increases in the weeks prior to the camp, extra staff may be added. |
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Staff wishing to get
in a lot of summer work needs to be flexible to travel and be willing
to work both private camps as well as managed camps. These constitute over 80% of the
staff workload. Our high camp date request time is the end of June, end of July and first of August. |
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Unless you can depart
and return with the staff travel arrangements for a camp, do not sign
up for that camp. No leaving early or arriving late. This causes
problems in assigning staff to camps. No missed camp time. |
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We will try to
re-schedule or replace any contracted camp that cancels. It will
either be replaced by substituting another camp that week or by
offering another camp a week you are not already contracted to teach. |
| Insubordination |
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Any staff who
purposefully does not follow ADTS® policy or instructions will be
subject to the following disciplinary actions:
A. A warning or critique from staff administration or company
administrator.
B. Temporary suspension without pay.
C. Immediate suspension with no further pay.
We hope this is a problem we will not have to encounter, but
consequences are there to support and strengthen our staff and
company. |
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This is a reminder to
all staff doing any private camp work separate and independent of ADTS®:
all feature and officer routines are paid choreography and become
property of ADTS® and cannot be taught for any personal work without
written consent from one of the company officers. If you are doing
summer contract work outside ADTS®, please notify the office or be
subject to dismissal from the ADTS® staff. Summer staff is under contract wtih ADTS® from June 1 to September 1. |
