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The comprehensive ability of dance teachers includes solid professional skills, rich stage experience, advanced artistic aesthetics, and skilled teaching techniques. China attaches great importance to the cultivation of art education talents, and the construction of art and physical education teachers in primary and secondary schools is a long and arduous process. Primary school dance teachers have long been faced with problems such as talent shortage, outdated methods and vague goals. This study aims to explore the teaching methods of primary school dance teachers, and to understand the current status of dance teaching in China's basic education stage by consulting literature and interviewing dance teachers. Based on the survey results, strategies such as talent training, teaching material development, rational use of multimedia, and subject integration are proposed, with multiple teaching strategies as the research pathway, in the hope of providing effective assistance for the development of the professional teaching abilities of primary school dance teachers.
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