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Creative Souls

A guide to teaching creative dance in the classroom

Creative Souls offers a guide to teaching creative dance. Designed to support teachers to create an organised environment where students feel confident to express themselves, it provides engaging themes, detailed lesson plans and strategies for managing whole-class dance.

Ages: 8-11 | Pages: 56 | Code: 0122 | ISBN: 9781877300110

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Frances Reed

Frances Reed (now Frances Adlam), a highly experienced and creative educator and therapist, has 20 years of teaching experience, is considered a “gifted teacher” by many, and for over 15 years has been involved in teaching the arts, creativity, multiple intelligences and working with creatively gifted children. She has lectured in New Zealand and been an adviser for teachers in the aforementioned areas. She is also a published children’s author, a dancer and a playwright. She currently works as an educator and therapist for children in her private practice, Out of the Box, where she specialises in working with children who are on the spectra of dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome and autism. Frances has written many resources for Essential Resources. You can find out more about Frances at www.outofthebox.net.nz.

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Introduction4
Defining Creative Dance4
Why Teach Creative Dance in School?5
The Arts Curriculum and Dance6
How to Use this Resource7
Class Management Strategies7
Lesson Format8
Approaches to Planning a Dance Lesson8
Section One: Teaching Dance via the Elements9
The Four Elements of Dance10
Step by Step Lesson Planning11
Warm Ups12
Unit One: Exploring our Space: An Introductory Lesson for All Students15
Unit Two: Exploring Body Awareness19
Unit Three: Exploring Pathways22
Unit Four: Exploring Time and Energy25
Section Two: Teaching Dance via Themes29
Step by Step Lesson Planning30
Using 'Structures'30
Warm Ups30
The Lesson Planning Process: A Model31
Unit One: Ancient Greece33
Pluto34
Diana37
Unit Two: Natural Disasters39
Fire39
Pain and Destruction43
Unit Three: The Pied Piper46
Rats!46
Corruption and Honesty49
Other Themes to Consider52
Understanding Dance in Context53
Recommended Readings54