Dance Curriculum / Designing the Curriculum

 

Clothesline Method

Group Exercise

Question #1

  • Chosen population: High schoolers (Grades 9-12)
  • Situation: Pre-adulthood, ready to go to college, very active
  • Transformation sought: Transition from very structured core classes, to more creative and free flowing classes allowing high schoolers to reflect their personalities, and prepare them for an abundance of creativity/freedom in their college classes; also this class can be used as a stress relief
  • Mode: Teaching in a high school semester long studio (hip hop or dance therapy - relevant to high schoolers)
  • Strategies: Starting with dances more familiar to them (street dance) then moving to more cultural dances and more skilled level dances; encorporating partner dances so that the students get more comfortable with one another

Question #2

  • The clothesline method is unique because it encourages a transformation for the students
  • We will asses where students are at in the beginning by warming them up or auditioning them and breaking them into levels
  • Then we will show them a group of past students who took the class and made a dance and show them that they will experience a transformation 
  • Then we will start teaching them the dance
  • Clothesline submitted by Ashley under this thread

Empathy Map 

  • Break into sections based off of seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, saying
  • What's going on inside of the student's head - helps you understand
  • Allows you to have empathy for someone else and see the world from their point of view
  • Important to tap into perspective of students to build a proper curriculum for them

Making Adjustments

  • Make a set up adjustments to make the curriculum more powerful
  • Lessons may not be working and so it is time to tweak some things


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