Principles, materials, and methods for teaching brain-compatible
dance education (based in creative movement) to the pre-adolescent
child in and beyond the K-12 environment. Includes 4-8 hours of
community and or K-12 field experience.
Athena Title
Teaching Dance for Children
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, each student will identify, compare, and apply a range of learning and instructional theories as they apply to the young dancer.
By the end of the course, each student will discern the difference between teaching technique and a conceptual creative movement approach.
By the end of the course, each student will identify and apply of development principles (motor learning, cognition) and application to the dance learning environment.
By the end of the course, each student will identify the dance concepts and apply them in creative movement games and activities.
By the end of the course, each student will develop skills in planning, formulating, executing, and reflecting upon lesson plans for children’s dance based on Ann Green Gilbert’s conceptual approach.
By the end of the course, each student will gain knowledge and understanding of a diversity of learners in the dance learning environment and how to apply pedagogical and content knowledge in an instructional context.
By the end of the course, each student will practice teaching young children in the field through observation and minimal teaching in a K-5 PE classroom or a P-3 environment.
Students will identify their relationship to teaching and reflect upon their own identity as teacher
Topical Outline
Identify the four main areas of teaching to the whole child and their relation to creative movement
Identify and apply tools for differentiating instruction by learner, content, process, and product
Identify and apply instructional/learning theories applied to the young dance learner
Critically analyze current selected research in children's dance
Identify and apply motor development and motor learning issues for young children
Identify and apply factors in the creative movement learning environment
Plan and teach a creative movement lesson segment
Identify and correspond the categories of the National Standards in dance education (pK-5)
Identify, apply, and create assessments and assessment strategies
