Kinesthetic Loop

 

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Unit: Teaching

Theme: The Kinesthetic Loop


Introduction 

Paying careful attention to kinesthetic information, movement sensations and feelings reveals subtle details often missed in everyday life. When teaching children, such experience awakens the feedback ( or awareness ) part of the kinesthetic loop, from which, both teachers and students, can  derive dance knowledge.


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Learning Objectives

  •  Understand the kinesthetic link
  • Explain the benefits of creative dance and movement
  • Gain awareness of the importance of creative dance and movement as part of the methodology of teaching
  • Experience the creation of a lesson using creative dance and movement through the application of the kinesthetic loop

 

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Main Lesson

 

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CONTENT READING

 

Creative Dance for Learning: The Kinesthetic Link 

Principles of Dance as a Creative Art Activity 

CHAPTER 2 / Page 6

Creative Dance Improvisation

Kinesthetic Loop



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A Note to Remember

"Through the utilitarian realm of movement, students learn to be comfortable with movement, learn about their bodies, and increase their health and fitness. They learn skills that enable them to function efficiently and perhaps even to perform as athletes and artists. when movement is studied as an artistic form, however, a mindful attitude gives meaning to movement and bridges the physical with the expressive self. Movement skills are used as a resource for expression" (Brehm and McNett, 2008).


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 Case Study

Curtisville Primary Center


This is a kindergarten class at Curtisville Primary Center. Here they participate in a kinesthetic learning lab at the Deer Lakes School District building. Kinesthetic learning occurs as students engage a physical activity. The student is learning by doing, exploring, discovering.




 

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Activity


Get in groups. Design an activity in which you apply the kinesthetic loop through dance/movement.

Overall Goal:

Increase the amount of physical activity while learning Language Arts and Math

 

 Objectives

 Group A

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

Language Arts (letters of the alphabet)

 


Group B

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

Language Arts (sight words)

 


Group C

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

Language Arts (high frequency words)

 


 Group D

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

 Math (number bonds)

 

Group E

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

 Math (adding)





Group F

Integrate what they learned in the classroom with dance/movement

 Math (subtracting)

 



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Journaling


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Glossary


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Sources


Brehm, M.A. and McNett, L. (2008). Creative Dance for Learning: The Kinesthetic Loop. The University of Michigan Press


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Students' Work

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