Reflection #7

What? Dance is important to use in the classroom because it allows your students to express their thoughts and feelings by using all of their senses. Furthermore, creative movement expands your student's understanding of their environment. It also broadens their creative self expression. It is important to get our students moving and be thinking about the descriptive words we use to accomplish that.

So What? I would like to try and use dance in my lessons when I start teaching. We we did our dance assignment I thought that it was a little repetitive using dance the whole time. I think that if we use it for a segment here and there to really express something the students will really understand. One thing I really liked was using dance to teach language arts. When you read a book to them and then ask them to express certain parts through dance, use lots of verbs and adjectives so they can understand their meaning.

Now What? Yes, I would like to include dance in some of my lessons when it is appropriate. Like I said before I would really like to try using it when teaching language arts. I would try to find a really good book. Then I would read the book further my students understand by using dance to express that book. I think you can teach students a lot through dance explaining certain movements and adding new words to their vocabulary. Plus it is a lot of fun for your students.