Officially Certified

 It wound up being a good thing that I taped my step class for my assessment so early. Getting it done and out of the way turned out to be only half the battle. It wound it taking me almost another whole month to get my video tape converted to dvd format so I could send in my submission for evaluation. That was a whole other long story, my tape made its way around in an attempt to get it converted. It turned out the guy that was able to convert it for me is one of my neighbors, he literally lives about 10 houses down from us and I never knew, small world. Anyway, once I had the dvd I could finally send it in, I only had less than a week before it was due to get it in to meet the deadline (3 months from when you take the training).

I happily took the dvd to the post office on Monday at lunch time and dropped it in the mail. I was happy enough when they sent a confirmation email on Wednesday saying they'd already received the dvd and it would be 4-6 weeks before I heard anything back. Needless to say I was shocked when I got an email the very next day stating that I passed the assessment! I am now officially a BTS Certified Group Step Instructor :-) 

My assessment wasn't perfect by any means. There are a total of 10 tracks (songs) that are pre-choreographed that you have to teach. For the assessment you have to pass 7 out of the 10 tracks. I just made it, I wound up failing 3 of the tracks, but in the end it doesn't matter. I know I am hard on myself and of course I would have liked to have passed all of them but realistically I realize that it was my first class I taught ever and I still think I did pretty well. Now I can focus on getting better at teaching now that the hardest part is behind me with the assessment. And I finally have an interview at the gym tomorrow night so they can officially hire me and I can hopefully get paid to teach as well, since this was quite an expensive endeavor. Anyway I'm looking forward to teaching my own Group Step class soon!