Creative Souls

Name: Creative Souls
SKU: 0122
Price: 44.95 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Frances Reed
ISBN: 9781877300110

A guide to teaching creative dance in the classroom

By
Frances Reed

Creative Souls offers a guide to teaching creative dance. Designed to support teachers to create an organised environment where students feel confident to express themselves, it provides engaging themes, detailed lesson plans and strategies for managing whole-class dance.

Ages: 8-11 | Pages: 56 | Code: 0122 | ISBN: 9781877300110

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Frances Reed

Frances Reed (now Frances Adlam), a highly experienced and creative educator and therapist, has 20 years of teaching experience, is considered a “gifted teacher” by many, and for over 15 years has been involved in teaching the arts, creativity, multiple intelligences and working with creatively gifted children. She has lectured in New Zealand and been an adviser for teachers in the aforementioned areas. She is also a published children’s author, a dancer and a playwright. She currently works as an educator and therapist for children in her private practice, Out of the Box, where she specialises in working with children who are on the spectra of dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome and autism. Frances has written many resources for Essential Resources. You can find out more about Frances at www.outofthebox.net.nz.

CoNteNtS
Introduction	4
Defining Creative Dance	4
Why Teach Creative Dance in School?	5
The Arts Curriculum and Dance	6
How to Use this Resource	7
Class Management Strategies	7
Lesson Format	8
Approaches to Planning a Dance Lesson	8
Section One: Teaching Dance via the Elements	9
The Four Elements of Dance	10
Step by Step Lesson Planning	11
Warm Ups	12
Unit One: Exploring our Space: An Introductory Lesson for All Students	15
Unit Two: Exploring Body Awareness	19
Unit Three: Exploring Pathways	22
Unit Four: Exploring Time and Energy	25
Section Two: Teaching Dance via Themes	29
Step by Step Lesson Planning	30
Using 'Structures'	30
Warm Ups	30
The Lesson Planning Process: A Model	31
Unit One: Ancient Greece	33
Pluto	34
Diana	37
Unit Two: Natural Disasters	39
Fire	39
Pain and Destruction	43
Unit Three: The Pied Piper	46
Rats!	46
Corruption and Honesty	49
Other Themes to Consider	52
Understanding Dance in Context	53
Recommended Readings	54