Our first dance workshop started last Friday. The structure and activities we did in the class was similar to the dance lesson we had last year, but the focus this year is about how can we as teachers in the future to connect dance to students and thus engage them to learn.
The elements of dance, missed the term 'dynamics'.
The term ‘creative‘
is “intelligible in a variety of seemingly different artistic activities (e.g.
making, performing, appreciating)’ provided that we realize that there is no
essential meaning governing it use”(HeyForn,V.M.,1985). To engage students and
develop their abilities including creativity, Iris introduced three types of
learning to us: physical, social and aesthetic learning. Physical learning
develops individual’s physical skills through ‘making’ and ‘performing’, the
activities could be the isolation warm-up or a sequence of choreography we did
in the workshop. Social learning relies on students’ communication and
collaboration, like doing a group ‘presentation’ in class. Aesthetic Learning
requires students to discriminate, give reflection and appreciation to other
groups’ choreographed sequences.
This is the photos of our group's sequence presentation. (Miyu,Tahmina and myself )
I really appreciate and enjoyed watching all group presentations we did in the last workshop. Like the PDHPE most of us did on Thursday, dance is similar as they both develop students’ physical learning. However, it is different that dance as one resource to support in teaching other subjects, helps students to learn more effectively and improve their creativity and learning in social and aesthetic area. To either PDHPE or dance, making the class FUN is one of the most effective methods to engage students in class.
Reference:
Heyforn, V.M.
(1985). The Artistic Creativity in The
Aesthetic in Education, Malcolm Ross (Ed.)Pergamon
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