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Nicki (Nicki85)
Junior Member
Username: Nicki85
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 9:23 am: |       |
I am kind of new to the idea of dance in physical education. What are somethings that I could incorporate into the dance unit without making it too difficult for the students to learn or for me to teach/grade? |
Megan (Beaky10)
Junior Member
Username: Beaky10
Post Number: 6
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 6:58 pm: | |
I am not familiar with dance either but as far as grading, not all students are going to have great ability. I believe grading should be based on participation/effort. I know from dance fundamentals class we are taught to teach dance in steps and move progressively. It would probably be best to start with simple walking, skipping, jumping, sliding and running maneuvers to familiarize the students with the basics of locomotor movements. |
Dennis G. (Dennis)
Junior Member
Username: Dennis
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 10:59 pm: | |
Teach your students the basic steps for the genre of dance you are teaching.
For instance, line dance: Teach the grapevine as it si the most used staep in line dancing.
Then teach 2-4 line dances...start simple lile Pata Pata, then work up to more dificult like Macho Man.
Then take a popular song(clean and good beat), then break class into 4 groups.....more if class size is large, and have them come up with their own 8 count moves, then bring them together and have each group show the class their moves...practice...then put all the moves together. The students just created their own dance. Great for 6th grade.
I taught my 8th graders basic square dance. They learned the basic steps...then learned two simple dances.
They then put themsleves into groups of 4 or 8 and created their own square dance, using their own moves and music.
They had to perform their dance in front of the class on stage in the auditorium.
It was great..some students combined salsa with traditional square dance...some did tarditional square dance with modern music.
At first they were petrified and didn't want to do it, but afterwards they loved it.
I am not much of a dancer, been the jockish type all of my life...but I could not imagine teaching physical education without dance.
Start simple and build up over time. |
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