DANC 280 Dance Education for Early Childhood

This course provides students who plan to teach dance to young children the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of movement essential to early childhood dance education in the public and private studio setting. This course will give beginning teachers an understanding of how to enhance the aesthetic, kinesthetic, and artistic experiences of a child through dance education, as well as the tools to teach creative movement, pre-ballet, and other forms of dance to young children.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Integrate and demonstrate self-discipline, self-confidence, and social skills through cooperative
   learning activities and other pedagogical strategies
2. 2. Demonstrate and interpret knowledge of early childhood development as it applies to classroom
   management and organization of educational material
   
3. 3. Create a lesson plan
4. 4. Incorporate a globally-focused movement approach in a lesson plan to provide appropriate historical,
   cultural and social context
   
5. 5. Demonstrate and explain knowledge of basic movement, pre-ballet, creative rhythmic activities, and
   cultural dance forms
6. 6. Identify and discuss various integrations between dance education and the arts spectrum: voice,
   theatre, music and visual arts
   
7. 7. Identify and discuss various correlations between dance education and the academic spectrum: math,
   science, language arts and social studies
8. 8. Design movement lessons and modifications using imagery and other tools for movement invention
   and application
   

Course Objectives

1. 1. Integrate and demonstrate self-discipline, self-confidence, and social skills through cooperative
   learning activities and other pedagogical strategies
2. 2. Demonstrate and interpret knowledge of early childhood development as it applies to classroom
   management and organization of educational material
   
3. 3. Create a lesson plan
4. 4. Incorporate a globally-focused movement approach in a lesson plan to provide appropriate historical,
   cultural and social context
   
5. 5. Demonstrate and explain knowledge of basic movement, pre-ballet, creative rhythmic activities, and
   cultural dance forms
6. 6. Identify and discuss various integrations between dance education and the arts spectrum: voice,
   theatre, music and visual arts
   
7. 7. Identify and discuss various correlations between dance education and the academic spectrum: math,
   science, language arts and social studies
8. 8. Design movement lessons and modifications using imagery and other tools for movement invention
   and application