Ballet Pointe Readiness Assessment- Instructor Score Card, Take-Home Report Card for Students, Exercises and Criteria (Editable Sheet)

Looking for a detailed plan to help your ballet dancers gain the necessary strength to start en pointe? Look no further! This Pointe Readiness Assessment by Smartistry details a series of exercises that will quickly and effectively train your dancers to safely expand into pointe ballet. With this single purchase, you gain access to: 1. A detailed description of 7 specific single-leg exercises to increase balance, proprioception, foot and ankle strength, and foot and ankle flexibility 2. Specific "pointe" values carefully assigned to each exercise. Once your dancers are familiar with executing the exercises and have shown signs of strength, it's time to move into evaluating their progress and pointe readiness with this assessment via "pointe" values. 3. Detailed scoring criteria for each exercise assessment. 4. An easy-to-use assessment score tracker for you to quickly reference the score values of all the dancers in each class. This broad format makes it easy to locate strengths and opportunities shared by an entire class, so you can work corrections into your curriculum. 5. A handy-dandy "Score by Dancer" tracker, so you can track multiple assessments by dancer for easy recognition of patterns. This allows you to identify any specific strengths or opportunities for each dancer (for example: you may notice that a dancer is significantly stronger on one foot, or that they especially struggle with balance exercises). This helps you see clear progress over time. 6. A Dancer Report Card to share with each dancer following assessments, so they too can keep track of their progress (along with your fabulous tips and encouragement!) All of these fabulous tools are provided in two formats: an easy-to-use editable Excel spreadsheet, or a printable PDF.  Get both formats for a discount! You can track your dancers' progress digitally in the cells by utilizing a simple addition formula, or you can print the sheets out and complete them by hand. Note that each tab of sheets is already formatted to print on an 8.5 x 11" paper in landscape orientation. Questions? Message us for details!