Teaching Practice: Calming Excercises / Teachers: Kayla Humphrey & Melisa Callard

 

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Unit: Teaching Practice

Theme: Mini-Lessons & Calming Exercises

Introduction

 

 Student teaching or teaching practice is a supervised instructional experience; usually the culminating course in a university or college undergraduate education or graduate school program leading to teacher education and certification.

 

Today, students will be introduced to two new teaching experiences led by Kayla Humphrey and Melisa Callard.

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Learning Objectives

 

• Understand the dynamics of teaching a dance/movement lesson
• Explain the different parts of a lesson plan in written form
• Gain an awareness of the importance of the creative method
• Experience the creative method through teaching a dance/movement lesson

 

 

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Main Lesson

 

Mini-Lessons

Kayla Humphrey

Melisa Callard

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A Note to Remember

"Failing to plan is planning to fail." 

 

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Case Study

 The aim of this video is to help little people manage the big emotions they experience. It includes some simple breathing exercises and stretches to help kids release tension and calm down when they are feeling stressed, frustrated or anxious. I suggest that you practice the exercises in this video with your child when they are feeling calm, engaged and ready to learn. 

When they are familiar with the video you can remind them of their breathing exercises/stretches at times they are experiencing stress and help them learn to calm themselves down. When our little monkey has his mouth closed, he is breathing in. When his mouth is open, he is breathing out. During stretches, encourage your child to breath deeply and slowly.

 

Questions

After watching the video, what tools can we develop to engage young children ?

Please, write a reflection on how this video can improve online dance/movement instruction for children.

 

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Journaling

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Glossary

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Sources

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Students' Work

 

LESSON PLAN

 

 Kayla Humphrey

 

 

3 hours ago

Kayla Humphrey

Todays Lesson Plan - Kayla Humphrey

Body Isolations Class 

Who am I teaching? : 11th and 12th grade dance elective (upperclassmen)

Class demographics: 15-20 students 

• 5-10 students are advanced 

  5-10 students ESOL or ELL students 
• Advanced dance background not needed
• Intermediate dance experience required 
•   Title:  Elements of movement control 

Subtitle/Unit: Separate Part Body Isolation 

Component: Movement Control and Body Expression

Objectives: To understand how to move your body in separate areas and learn how to focus on movement isolation of your body.

Activity: Basics of body control and movements. 

Learning Objectives : learn flexibility focused warm up , then learn isolation focused movements, watch a short presentation on hip hop influence, practice different movements, and do a cool down. 

Lesson plan: 30 Minute lesson either 1:00-1:30 or 1:40-2:10

(1:00)(1:40) 2.5  minute introduction 

• Introduce myself to the class and what we will be learning today 

(1:03)(1:43) 2.5 minute body isolation intro video 

• A clip from a youtube showing different body isolation movements that may help develop choreography.

  https://youtu.be/i4VselupwD8?si=3p1h6P2Gl0hP6PY5

(1:05)(1:45) 5 minute warm up - (She Wolf- Shakira) 

• Work on loosening the body to prepare of rigid movement 

(1:10)(1:50) 7 minute demonstration on how to separately move each body part (gimme more-Brittany Spears)( Beautiful Liar- Shakira, Beyonce) (

• Starting with chest movement isolation

  Moving towards stomach (body roll)
• Hip isolation (whining) 

(1:17)(1:57) 8  minute free practice Activity:

• Everyone has to come up with a combination of 3 body isolation movements that i showed or not that go together into 2, 8 counts to present to others in groups of 4 (5 minutes) (background music playing 

• Present your 2, 8-counts to the class (3-4 minutes) 
  

(1:25)(2:05)3-5 minute cool down and Outro (Yellow Brick Road -Elton John)&(How to be a heartbreaker)

• Time of the cool down depends on how long demonstrations take. 

• Thank everyone for coming 

(1:30)(2:10) END 

 

LESSON PLAN 

Melissa Callard

DAN 385 Methods of Teaching Dance

Age Group:
● 6-8th grade
● Students have various backgrounds of dance
Title: Introduction to Ballet Class Structure
Component: Movement Principles and Underlying Concepts
Objective: Know how a ballet class is structured and be able to create a combination with the
steps taught in class

Competency:

● Students are able to learn the basic structure of a ballet class
● Students are able to learn a center combination and apply corrections
● Students are able to create a combination on their own

Duration: 30 minutes

Learning Objective: Learn how a ballet class is organized into two main parts and the exercises that fall under each. Work with other to apply what they learned into their own exercise.

 Assessment: Performance based assessment. Creating their own exercise will demonstrate what the students took from the lecture.