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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…
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Just Dance!
I am not a trained Dance teacher. I like dancing, but I am hardly a professional. I can teach dance but I really wish I was better. I discovered Just Dance on our Wii and after listening to Jarrod Robinson discuss how he uses Just Dance in his classes and talking to Alex Thomas, I am jumping on the bandwagon. I have always gone for traditional Dance methods – teach moving to the beat, offer some dances such as folk or line or paired dances and then look at different styles and study videos on Youtube and try some more basic moves and then ask students to create a dance.…