For BACD students interested in gaining an ISTD teaching qualification, in order to gain an exemption from the Safe Practice module in the ISTD qualifications, you must be a member of the ISTD.
If you were to choose to “cash in” your Unit 1 exemption after you have left Trinity Laban, you would need to pay a higher annual rate. The usual Provisional Membership rate is £88 per year but through TL it’s £50 for your whole time of study at TL.
Detailed Description
For BACD students interested in gaining an ISTD teaching qualification, in order to gain an exemption from the Safe Practice module in the ISTD qualifications, you must be a member of the ISTD.
If you were to choose to “cash in” your Unit 1 exemption after you have left Trinity Laban, you would need to pay a higher annual rate. The usual Provisional Membership rate is £88 per year but through TL it’s £50 for your whole time of study at TL.
The deadline to purchase the Provisional Membership is 24th March.
The additional benefits (listed on the ISTD website if you want to have a look) are:
- Receive free Dance Magazine and keep up to date with the latest news, dance teaching tips, and hot topics. Issued three times a year (subscription worth £25 UK and EU/ International £30)
- Access exclusive events and a wide range of syllabus and non-syllabus training
- Get member discounts on CPD courses
- Use 5% discount in the Society shop (applied automatically when logged into the member area)
- Access the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Vetting Scheme
- Receive regular e-newsletters with the latest news from the Society
- Be part of a dance community through ISTD online forums, get regular updates on genre-specific news, seek advice, and build valuable networks
- Wherever you are in the UK and across the world, the ISTD have representatives on hand - access ISTD Regional and International representatives network
- Receive discounts on advertising in Dance magazine and in the classified advertising section of the website.
- Search for dance teaching jobs and schools for sale in the classified advertising section of the website.
For those who want to complete the full (3 unit) community dance qualification all ISTD teaching is online.
