For years, K-12 teachers have been relying on the invaluable
tools and blueprints in "Building Dances" and "Building More
Dances" to help their students put movements together. Now, with
"Building Dances, Second Edition," the original text has been
significantly expanded and updated to give you even more tools to
guide your students as they experiment with the creative
process--even if you've never taught or choreographed dance.
Like the earlier books, this guide puts you in the role of
facilitator rather than demonstrator. Using the dance construction
models provided, you'll explain the material, teach the necessary
skills, direct the action, and assess the outcomes . . . letting
your students focus on the creative work.
"Building Dances, Second Edition," follows the same winning
approach that made the first edition so popular. It takes you step
by step through the choreographic process, with sample lesson
plans, warm-up ideas, and seven easy steps to follow when building
a dance, plus even more great material:
-A convenient, expanded, ready-to-use deck of Deal-A-Dance cards
-Updated dance-building activities, called Dance Construction
Models, reformatted and expanded to include loads of new
information and six new activities-An expanded glossary explaining
important dance terms in everyday language-New forms and checklists
to make the assessment process easier for you and your students
This edition contains a total of 15 Dance Construction Models,
including 6 never before published. Each construction model
provides concrete ideas to help students shape dance movements,
perhaps to create a scene, communicate a story, foster an idea, or
interpret a piece of music. And now the Dance Construction Models
have been redesigned to make them even easier to use Each one
includes a description of the activity or procedure, an example,
cross-references to the national standards for dance and for
physical education, easy adaptations for three different grade
levels (grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12), and criteria for student
assessments. You'll find four types of sample rubrics for each one,
with specific criteria for movement skills, cognitive skills,
choreographic and creative process, and social and aesthetic
skills.
The unique Deal-a-Dance cards--one of the most popular Dance
Construction Models--have also been expanded and reformatted to get
students even more involved in creating and assessing their own
work. The cards provide more than 230 movement ideas to get the
creative juices flowing. Each card presents a definition of a
selected movement term, a description of that movement, multiple
suggestions for students to try, challenges that encourage them to
put movements together to form phrases and dances, and a
self-evaluation question. The cards are excellent hands-on tools
that allow students to work at their own pace, either individually
or in small groups. You can use them for a single lesson, a unit,
or an entire semester of work.
This edition also contains new ideas to help you connect dance
to other disciplines and increase students' engagement, plus new
criteria for writing rubrics and suggestions on how to expand
simple dances into whole productions for PTA and other student
performance settings.
Whether you're a physical education teacher, drama coach, music
teacher, dance teacher, classroom teacher, or recreation
specialist, this book will help you stimulate your students'
imaginations. Use it alone or together with the companion resource,
"Building More Dances," to help your students experience the joy of
building their own dances.
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