Teaching Creative Movement and Dance: A Guide for Pre-Service & Beginning Teachers Secondary 12 to 15 years

Teaching Creative Movement and Dance is an inclusive text aimed at pre-service and beginning teachers. It provides a comprehensive, practical approach for the teaching of creative movement and dance within the school environment. This text offers suggestions for working with students in secondary school ages 12–15 years. It includes ideas for a variety of dance genres and work units for practical application, with detailed subject matter and learning experiences. Key features: Detailed lesson plans with progressive teaching strategies. Extensive subject matter and learning experiences combining choreography, performing and responding tasks. Evaluative response to dance works studied in the Australian curricula. Example criteria and assessment sheets, student profile and standard schemas. Detailed text of a short history and development of Dance in Musical Theatre.