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    Dance – Concepts, Visual Learning and Formative Assessment

    A few months ago I posted about our Just Dance unit for Grade 7 students.  This was a big change for us as Dance educators and has really been a valuable learning tool for our students. As this was so successful for our G7 students, we decided to run a more advanced form of it for our G9 and G10 students.  We wanted them to experience a Dance unit that allowed for success for everyone and that ensured we have a chance to formatively assess along the way rather than leaving the final summative assessment as the be-all-end-all of the unit.  We also decided to use a Visual Learning approach…