Teaching Creative Movement and Dance: A Guide for Pre-Service & Beginning Teachers - Senior Students 16-18 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 aged sixteen to eighteen years. The work units detail subject matter, learning experiences and ideas for assessment with examples of criteria sheets for performing, choreographing, and responding tasks. This text also includes an example of an educational syllabus document. The text relating to the syllabus example is concerned with the key factors to consider when faced with the task of writing a work program for implementation into a school curriculum. Key features: Extensive subject matter and learning experiences detail choreography, performing and responding tasks. Evaluative response to a broad range of dance works studied in Australian curricula. Detailed information regarding the mandatory aspects of the example syllabus written in this text with work units, assessment and criteria sheets and exit levels of achievement. The ‘Overview of Ballet’ unit features subject matter, learning experiences, and examples for assessment for choreography, performing and responding tasks. The focus area is ‘Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes’ The example Elective unit of work features Dance in Musical Theatre. The history and development of dance in musical theatre is in Chapter Eleven Choreographers in this text include Michael Fokine, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Graeme Murphy, Stephen Page, Ulysses Dove and Akram Khan.