Teacher Application

EMAIL INVITES TO APPLY ARE SENT BY CIRF TO ALL PREVIOUS YEAR APPLICANTS.
We welcome all applications, and encourage you to share the Application Link,
http://ciResearchForum.org/teacher_application, with your peers who might not know about CIRF/WCCIF.

Dear Teachers of Contact Improvisation around the world:
CIRF application period for WCCIF 2010 is now CLOSED. We welcome all applications.
Please review ALL the details of minimum prerequisites, materials required, and instructions,
below, BEFORE you begin.
Questions are welcome at: contact@ciResearchForum.org.

DEADLINES
Completed application (including non-class activities, headshot photo, and Prerequisites) due:
Tuesday, December 15 2009 midnight PST.
Please note: ALL event/activity proposals--Labs, Discussions, Scores, Jam structures, Site Specific Performance Showing or Works for Student Performance Night, and Any Other Structures/Activities are due at the same time as class proposals, and late submissions will NOT be considered.
(NO EXCEPTIONS.)
The WCCIF 2010 application period is now CLOSED.
All WCCIF 2010 Applicants will be notified by: January 1, 2010.

APPLICATION PREREQUISITES
1. 3+ current years teaching experience of CI specifically (as opposed to general dance teaching of many styles) and involvement in the national/international CI community.
2. Demonstrated experience through Professional dance resume/CV and 3+ years date-specific community participation list.

THEME
--WCCIF's theme for 2010 is "Innovation and Research." Allow this theme to relate/influence your submissions of classes, labs, scores or other activities where applicable.

9 REQUIRED PIECES OF APPLICATION TO PREPARE TO SUBMIT ONLINE
1. Class Title, Level, Disabled/Non-Disabled designation, whether your proposal is an Intensive or Single Class. Also prepare any Labs, Discussions, Scores or other Activities you wish to propose in addition to your class.

2. Intent to Co-teach, Co-teacher's name. If you want to teach not alone but with another, BOTH Co-teachers must submit separate applications, naming each other as co-teacher. Request to Co-Teach is not a guarantee of acceptance. Co-Teacher requests NOT following the requirement of BOTH Teachers submitting applications will result in automatic rejection of entire proposal. If you're applying to teach the Fundamentals Intensive, a Co-Teacher is required.

3. Decide if you are willing to teach Fundamentals Level if needed.

4. Class description (short version 120-word max & long version 300-word max).

5. Biography (60-word max).

6. Prerequisites: Please describe skills and experience students are expected to have in order to participate in your class in addition to CIRF's default prereqs. If your material requires no prior experience or skill, please choose Fundamentals as the level for your proposal. Prereqs are required for all Intermediate and Advanced class proposals--Do NOT leave the Prerequisites field blank; read the defaults and either type "Fundamentals," "Int/Adv Default Prereqs OK" or type in your personal Prereqs.
CIRF's defaults are:
CIRF Intermediate Prereq:
at least 2 years’ current CI practice.
familiarity with:
jam partnering & etiquette, inversions, falling, rides/lifts
comfort with:
maintaining rolling point, counterbalance, taking/giving weight
CIRF Advanced Prereq:
at least 5 years’ current CI practice.
familiarity with:
score/ensemble work, integrated D/N dancing, states work,
performance, assisting a teacher demo.
comfort with:
jam partnering & etiquette, inversions, falling, taking/giving weight,
rides/lifts, adapts well with speed/distance/varied-sized partners.
To see how prereqs are presented to participants, go to the Prerequisites Link.

7. Photo: 1 headshot (72 dpi jpg is fine) for use in online dialogue through your account is mandatory.

8. Class scheduling (afternoon/eve) time preferences & conflicts (days you cannot teach).

9. Professional dance resume/CV and date-specific community participation list.

PLEASE SAVE THESE 2010 DATES
April 29: National Dance Week CIRF programming at CounterPULSE Theater, San Francisco.
Festival Dates:
June 29 & 30: Western CI Teachers' Exchange (WeCITE)--an event for current and returning CI teachers to exchange methods and ideas on teaching/performing CI and establish rapport for the fest week. Food provided.
July 1-6: WCCIF festival schedule
July 7: WrapUp--a day for evaluation, dialogue, reconnecting as teacher community, harvesting, and proposals for the future. Food provided.

2010 WCCIF TEACHER PAY
Intensive teachers: $500 + up to $500 travel stipend for maximum 3 teachers (email Travel Stipend Request if applicable), free participation in all events including WeCITE and WrapUp (food provided at the pre- and post- events), and TAG 2010 Dues Waiver for 2010 (see POLICIES below). Intensives are 2-3 hours each day for 5 days.
Single Class teachers: $100 (for up to 18 teachers) + up to $100 travel support for 9 (half of 18 total teachers), + free participation in all events including WeCITE and WrapUp (food provided at the pre- and post-events), and TAG 2010 Dues Waiver for 2010 (see POLICIES below). Single Classes are 2 hours on 1 day.

Teachers who come from abroad and need more travel support--we are happy and willing to provide you an invitation and support letter that will enable you to apply for grants for travel support.

PLEASE NOTE THESE CIRF POLICIES:
--CIRF events (including WCCIF) no longer have residency requirements for any teachers and CIRF no longer represents a region, but is a regional locus for world-wide CI exchange.
--WeCITE and WrapUp (evaluation & dialogue day) are pre- and post-festival teacher events at which all attendees are provided with food.
--Teachers are paid set fees, not a variable portion of profits. For that fee, doing TWO logistical tasks during the festival in addition to teaching is mandatory.
--2010 Teaching TAG Dues Waiver. All Teachers after their first year with CIRF may join the Teachers' Advisory Group (TAG) which makes ongoing recommendations for programming and teaching-quality via in-person and online forums. TAG membership also provides year-round discounts and CV-enhancing benefits through CIRF real-time and online programs. Annual TAG member dues are $50. However, as CIRF is in year 2 of its 3-year plan to increase Teacher pay, dues for those teaching classes at CIRF events in 2010 are waived. (see: TEACHER PAY SECTION, above.)
--TAG (Teachers' Advisory Group) members not teaching in 2010 pay annual $50 dues due by March 1 annually, which provides them entry to WCCIF, WeCITE, and WrapUp for no additional fee. Non-teaching TAG members whose dues are not current after January 1 will have CIRF online access terminated, and if not current after March 1 of each year are required to pay public rates for entry to all CIRF events. If you've taught at WCCIF prior to 2008 and are unsure of your dues status, send a Dues Update Request to: contact@ciResearchForum.org
To pay your 2010 TAG Dues now, click here on the Membership link.
--Childcare. Part-time Childcare is made available to Teachers at CIRF events on a pre-arrangement basis. To read more and inquire, please go to the TAG Childcare link.
--TAG Intranet. CIRF TAG members have access to this one-stop-shop area for
group dialogue, answers to questions about membership, and a growing teacher resource archive. Non-members have access to public dialogue portions of this intranet. Questions posted to Staff here are received just like email, and are promptly responded to.
To view, go to the TAG Link.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
1. You will submit your App in THREE PARTS:
Background/Contact Info,
Primary Class Proposal,
and Additional Activities.
If you've taught at WCCIF in the past 3 years, skip to #4 of these instructions, using your existing username and password to login, OR:
If you've never logged in ever, click LOGIN at top right, then click Create New Account. Your Username MUST be your FIRST AND LAST NAME (no nicknames or email addresses).

2. Type in your contact info, click the Create New Account button at the bottom.

3. Check your email! Use your new account info to LOGIN to ciresearchforum.org, and change your password to something easy to remember.

4a. Once you're logged in, your account will appear, with your Username at the top and the Contact Information link active.
Click the Edit tab to submit or make any updates to your data including email/phone, Bio, Dance Resume (CV), and Community Involvement List. Make sure to check YES/NO on Willingness to teach Fundamentals, then Click the Save Button at the bottom of the page before going on to the next step. (To view your saved changes and make sure they're correct, click the View tab at top.)

4b. To submit your headshot photo, click the Account link at the top just under your Username, and switch over to the Account page from the Contact Information link where you submitted your Bio/etc. Scroll down to "Picture," and follow the instructions to upload your Headshot Photo.

5. Submit your Single Class or Intensive Proposal by clicking the
My Events link in the TOP NAVIGATION BAR (just under the CIRF/WCCIF logo at the top of the screen).
Make sure to SAVE every time.
If this is your first time applying to CIRF you must complete and save your Bio and contact info FIRST or your My Events will appear blank.
Each time you save, please look for the phrase in green, "Event was successfully created," or "Event was successfully updated." If you don't see this phrase at the top of the screen, you haven't saved. After you've saved, you can see how your proposals will appear to the public by clicking on the My Events link. If your proposal isn't visible, it wasn't correctly saved.
Make sure to select the correct Event Type: Class or Intensive. Include name of Co-Teacher, if any, in first line of Short Description and in Notes field. Do NOT leave the Prerequisites field blank; read the defaults and either type "Fundamentals," "Int/Adv Default Prereqs OK," or type in your personal Prereqs. Prerequisites are REQUIRED for all Intermediate and Advanced classes/intensives. If you have any additional comments or info about your class/intensive propopsal enter it in the Notes field. Click SAVE when all fields of class proposal are complete. You are welcome to submit more than one class proposal.

6. To submit any other proposals for Labs, Discussions, Scores, etc, you must submit them separately by going back to the My Events link and clicking the Propose Event link again for each proposed activity. Be sure to select the correct Event Type from the pull-down menu. The Performance event category applies to all non-curated showings, including but not limited to: Site Specific Performance, Labs that culminate in Performance, and afternoon showings with alternative structure. Separate Applications for the Curated Performance will be issued later in the year and are NOT part of this application. Please note: all activity ("events") proposals are due at the same time as class proposals, and late submissions will NOT be considered. All event proposals are due Dec 15, 2009.

7. Once you've saved your Proposals, you can return to the My Events link to edit your application anytime until Dec 15.
If you've completed all THREE PARTS (Background/Contact Info, Primary Class Proposal, and Additional Activity Proposals), you're done!

8. Need more help? Email contact @ ciresearchforum .org or call 415-335-6384 or click Help? in the TOP NAVIGATION BAR.

We look forward to receiving your application. All the best for planning your summer.

Ali, Kim, Rajendra and Jen
CIRF Staff