Teaching Dancesport Instructional Guide: Development and Evaluation

Dance has long been recognized as a powerful medium for self-expression, physical fitness, and cultural communication. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an instructional guide in teaching Dancesport. This used social-developmental research, which involved both the development phase and evaluation phase. This was conducted in Capiz. The participants were the 7 coaches and teachers from Capiz for the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and 10 experts with 30 BPEd students to evaluate the developed instructional guide in teaching Dancesport. Data were collected through two main instruments. The FGD was used to gather qualitative insights from participants, which served as basis for developing the instructional guide and the structured evaluation questionnaire was administered to assess the level of acceptability of the developed instructional guide in terms of content, format, accuracy and organization of information, and technical quality. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data and mean for the quantitative data. Result revealed that Dancesport coaches and teachers faced challenges, such as lack of instructional guide to use, knowledge or experience, teaching dance category, resources or materials, participation in seminar/workshop, teaching and mentoring dance athletes, financial concern, attitude, and time. Essential skills for effective instruction included coaching and mentorship, drive to learn, technical expertise, effective communication and teaching skills, motivation skills, resourcefulness and creativity, and schedule of practice. To address these gaps, an instructional guide was developed featuring comprehensive and updated content, multimedia elements, accessibility and usability, collaboration with experts and time frame. The guide was rated very acceptable by both experts and students in terms of content, format, accuracy, organization, and technical quality, indicating its effectiveness in enhancing Dancesport instruction.