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Professional Development for Educators Barbara Pearson,
Dancer/Choreographer
405 Center St. Bethlehem, PA 18018
I. Teaching and Learning through Movement Teachers learn ways to use
movement to reinforce basic skills Sample Program 1. Introduction Introduction
to presenter and participants Brief synopsis
of materials to be presented Reflection
- “questions I want to have answered” 2. Background -
Research supporting Arts Education and Arts Integration as an essential
component of education for all students (30 min.) §
Dr. Howard Gardner’s Theory of
Multiple Intelligences, and its Application §
Recent Brain Research its
contribution to educational practices 3. Elements of Dance 4. Using the
Movement and Music in the Curriculum –Participation in exercises
demonstrating how movement and music can be used to reinforce science, social
studies, mathematics, and language arts “H2O, What do You Know?” - An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Model §
Warm-up - Introduction to the Elements of Dance §
Science - The Three States of Water and the Water Cycle §
Sequencing
for Meaning §
Make a Machine - “How Water
Creates the World” §
Slide Show Game §
Mathematics
- Snowflake Patterns §
Geometric
Gyrations - Mirror exercise, symmetry, flip, turn and slide. §
Kaleidoscope
- Move the pattern to music §
Language
Arts - Water Poetry - Participants explore expressing poetry through
group movement. §
Curriculum
Web Design - In groups participants brainstorm how they might design an
interdisciplinary unit with the theme of water. Lunch 5. “Music
Motivates Movement ” -Developing Problem Solving and Thinking Skills Through
Movement and Music - Interpreting Rhythm through Movement - note
value, meter and rhythm Dance Rhythms - dance rhythms in 2’s,
3’s and 4’s Multicultural Applications Ethnic and Historical
Dance - Form and Style 6. Group Projects 7. Wrap-up -Group
Summary and Reflection II. Applying Multiple Intelligences Theory
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