The ABT® Affiliate Teacher

The ABT® Affiliate Teacher is a level of distinction for ABT® Certified Teachers that successfully present their students for examinations.

All ABT® Certified Teachers are eligible to present their students for examination at the end of the academic school year. Once a teacher presents his/her students, and 75% of his/her students pass, the teacher then becomes an ABT® Affiliate Teacher. ABT Affiliate Teachers must present a minimum of 12 students biannually for examination to maintain their status.

To have an adjudicator visit your school, you must be prepared to present a minimum of 3 classes, totaling at least 36 students (approximately 12 students per class), in any level. It is possible to present less than 3 classes of students by scheduling an examination to take place at ABT’s headquarters in New York. An adjudicator will observe and evaluate the students in a class that is prepared in advance, and taught, by their ABT® Certified Teacher. Affiliate examination Guidelines and Class Plans will be provided to ABT® Certified Teachers upon request.

Students can pass successfully on 4 levels: pass, pass with merit, pass with honors, pass with high honors. This process will be reevaluated/ revised on an ongoing basis. Students must wear the International Dance Supply ABT Academy Uniform at the exam. This line is available at: http://www.idsdance.com/BrowseCustom/USA/ABT/Academy_Uniform.

To set up an examination for your students, please download the ABT Affiliate examination request form, click here, and either email the completed form to curriculum@abt.org or mail it to Jenna Bitterman, National Training Curriculum Manager, American Ballet Theatre, 890 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. For questions please call 212-477-3030 ext. 1169.

Please be aware that examination scheduling is subject to the availability of the adjudicators.

For more information on how to become an ABT® Certified Teacher, click here.