The elders are so happy to hear fun music and move their bodies! I have found that they learn steps and rhythms extremely quickly. By the time the children get to Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, and then to the Adolescent Community, although their taste in music might change, they are still incredibly happy to move their feet. Also, their repertoire of dance numbers is quite amazing! Some children chose to create their own dances, and this is always a joy to watch.
My hope is that all of our children and young adults never lose their desire to play music and just dance! Luckily, there are resources that can take the pressure off teachers to lead the activities. Teachers looking for videos might start with the free Dance-of-the-Month lessons registration required from my own organization, EduMotion, and the H.
Self-awareness and self-management are fundamentally rooted in the body, making dance an excellent tool for building such competencies as emotional awareness, accurate self-perception, and impulse control.
Using dance to identify emotions: Dance and movement can be a great way for students to explore how emotions are shown and felt in their bodies.
How does your face show emotion? How do other parts of your body show emotion? After the students perform the dance together, ask them to choose a favorite move from the dance and practice that move while showing an emotion they select. They can do this in pairs—each student should guess what emotion their partner is trying to convey. Conclude the activity by prompting students to reflect on what their body feels like when they are showing the emotion they select.
By thinking about what an emotion feels and looks like in their body, they become more self-aware and attuned to their emotions. Many dance and movement activities promote teamwork and cooperation and provide rich opportunities for developing relationship skills and social awareness. Using dance for communication: In this activity, students consider how they communicate both verbally and nonverbally, and they practice listening and responding to input from others.
On a parallel level they also learn to work together as a group during class, standing in rows, forming circles or dancing with partners. Dancing requires motivation and discipline which should be gently encouraged and fostered by the dance teacher. This motivation and discipline will become life long tools and greatly assist in any career path chosen.
Social Interaction:. Dance students learn to depend on each other and to get along with each other in their dance class. In a well run dance class situation, children will create wonderful movement ideas eagerly and spontaneously, and often work in small teams to accomplish a creative group outcome, thus forging strong social interactive skills. Even the very young learn to communicate creative ideas to others through body movement and to work happily within a group dynamic.
At this very young age they start to learn to understand themselves in relation to others, and they also learn to trust each other. For the only child with no siblings and the home schoolers, in particular, joining a dance class with like-minded children is a highly enjoyable social learning event.
Improving Academic Grades:. A dance education has proven time and again to help children to develop good literacy skills. During a qualified dance class the class content, exercises and dances learned will have a profound effect on the dance student's academic schooling. Dance class constantly involves mathematics, with the counting of music, learning of complex rhythms and the continual use of patterns and forms.
Science studies are enhanced through spatial and bodily awareness. Dance is a natural method for learning and dance students learn movement patterns as readily as they learn languages. Learning to dance involves both sides of the brain and is one of the greatest builders of brain connectors giving dance students an added advantage especially observed in their academic language studies.
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