Course Title Gymnastics/Educational Dance
Catalog Description:
A course in physical education pedagogy emphasizing teaching methods and materials in educational dance and creative rhythms.
Instructor: RoseMarie Libera
Email:
Phone:. 860 798-7889
Purpose of the Course:
A. To provide the pre-professional student with an overview of educational dance. Emphasis is on creative dance projects and movement concept activities for use in the public schools.
B. To provide opportunities for students to teach a variety of such activities in a structured field work environment.
C. To provide opportunities for students to participate in, analyze, and write about such activities.
D. To improve interest, skill, and understanding for teaching physical education.
E. To provide opportunities for the integration of basic interdisciplinary skills (writing, critical thinking, word-processing) into physical education studies
Learning Outcomes:
Based on NCATE/NASPE program standards for Initial Programs in Physical Education, by the end of this course, students will have the following outcomes.
1. Outcome: Content Knowledge
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will understand physical education content, disciplinary concepts, still knowledge, current issues, and tools of inquiry related to the development of a physically educated person. Students will understand, identify and perform basic motor skills, movement patterns, and educational dance.
2. Outcome: Growth Development
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will understand how individuals learn and develop and can provide opportunities that support their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Students will understand how to apply the concepts of growth and development to specific teaching experiences. Pre-service students will demonstrate the ability to plan and implement developmentally appropriate learning experiences based on expected developmental progressions.
3. Outcome: Diverse Learners
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will understand how individuals differ in their approaches to learning and will create appropriate instruction adapted to these differences. Pre-service students will demonstrate their ability to understand learner differences to plan and implement learning strategies, environments, and experiences that are sensitive to diverse learners.
4. Outcome: Management and Motivation
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will understand individual and group motivation and behavior in order to create a safe learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation. The pre-service student will use a variety of developmentally appropriate strategies and routines to institute behavior change, manage resources, promote mutual respect and self-responsibility, and motivate students.
5. Outcome: Communication
The Eastern Connecticut University pre-service physical education major student will understand and apply effective verbal, non-verbal, and media communication techniques to foster inquiry, collaboration, and engagement in physical activity settings. Pre-service students will demonstrate the use of various media and technology for presentation of developmentally appropriate lessons, demonstrate sensitivity to all learners and model appropriate behavior, and illustrate communication strategies for building a community of learners.
6. Outcome: Planning and Instruction
The Eastern Connecticut state University pre-service physical education major student will understand how to plan and implement a variety of developmentally appropriate instructional pedagogical knowledge and application. Students will participate in a series of sequential and progressive practical experiences that allow them to refine, extend, and apply their teaching skills. Students will identify, develop, and implement appropriate instructional goals, utilize teaching resources, model instructional tasks, and select appropriate and safe learning experiences.
7. Outcome: Learner Assessment
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will understand and use formal and informal assessment strategies to foster physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of learners in physical activity. Pre-service students will explore the use of various forms of authentic and formal assessment to guide instruction, provide feedback to candidates, and to evaluate their teaching. Students will understand elements of validity, reliability, and bias, appropriate assessment techniques, and learner self-assessment strategies.
8. Outcome: Reflection
The Eastern Connecticut State University pre-service physical education major student will become a reflective practitioner who evaluates the effects of his/her actions on others (e.g., learners, parents/guardians, and professionals in the learning
Community) and seeks opportunities to grow professionally. Students will consult professional literature and participate in a series of learning experiences in the professional physical education community that promote self-reflection, problem-solving strategies, analysis of lessons, and evaluation of program designs. In addition, pre-service students will demonstrate a commitment to professional service by involvement in local, state, district, and national organizations.
Course Content:
1. Cognitive, Affective, Physical and Social Aspects of Dance
2. Teaching styles for instruction
3. Expressiveness through movement and dance
4. Time, space, energy and rhythm in dance movement
5. Use of music
6. Movement and dance activities for children
Learning Experiences and Assignments:
1. Teaching and self-evaluation
2. Evaluation of 2 Videos /teaching units
3. Lesson plan development
4. Course Text and Booklets
5. Student Notebook created by students (dance projects/ lesson plans)
6. Group dance development
Assessment Activities:
1. Class participation and class practicals (daily work)
2. Teaching: Lesson plan and evaluation
3. Notebook and Journal: Final Exam Part I
4. Quizzes and Reflection Cards
5. Final Exam Part II: Creative Dance Project
*Credit is given every day for every project, RFL, and everything we do = 50% of grade.
**Final Exams Part I & II, Lesson Plans with Teaching will be 50% of your grade.
Goal: To produce highly qualified instructors; productive citizens; and caring adults who show passion for the well being of others and the environment.
Objective: To use creative and social dance as the medium through which the “above goal” is acquired.
Materials:
You will need a text and (booklets - teacher provided)
You will find all the answers to your dance questions in these materials.
You will be required to read, watch videos and observe choreography in the making.
See syllabus:
We have 14 classes for you to become comfortable and confident enough to teach creative dance and/or social dance in a physical education setting for a public education institution.
We will spend as much time as possible making sure you understand the fundamental elements of movement and how to manipulate these elements in order to create new moves, phrase, and dance sequences.
We will explore the purpose of dance: concert (creative, expressive) and social (folk, cultural, popular).
We will explore and present movement through various teaching styles: command, direct, reproductive and indirect, guided discovery and problem solving.
You will be moving most of the time.
You will be creating movement much of the time.
You will be learning movement sequences.
You will become familiar with terms equated with creative dance and social dance.
You will teach mini lessons and evaluate them.
You will work individually, with partners and within a group in order to solve various movement problems.
Welcome to HPE 368!