Day One Lesson Plan

 Dance curriculum for Third Graders

Step 1:

  1. When planning on writing your own curriculum: 

  2. Who’s your audience? (3rd grade) Grade level, what situation are they in? 8-10 years old

  3. What is the transformation sought? What is the result of the curriculum you're designing? What are they looking to learn from us? Help develop core note taking, visual skills, customized process, 

Goal: solid base of core skills and how to implement them

  1. Introduction - set the stage

  2. Basic dance skills/elements of dance (the pieces)

  3. How to use these basic skills to get better and progress in dance and use these skills in other ways (ulterior motive: socialization, self esteem, expression

  4. Where to go from here and how to use these skills moving forward

Practicing and then recital to bring all their skills together? 

What is the mode/context of this curriculum? Book, teaching in a semester, set of online videos, how many days a week, etc? The mode of this curriculum is summer classes in-person, Monday-Friday, from 7am-12pm. Program will run for 6 weeks.

 The verbal to visual classroom - learners and makers (who falls in between)

The children are learners but we can have them add their own moves and create their own dances with others as well to inspire creativity. 

We will start with an activity to build relationships between the learners and teachers. Learn about the kids interests and what they want to learn in our class and how they learn individually.

What are they looking to learn from us? 

The children will be learning social skills, self esteem, respect, confidence, expressing emotion through dance, making friends, and learning spatial awareness. 

  

Step 2 - the clothesline method: flexible way of sequencing ideas

  • Know where students are staring and where you want them to end. 

  • We will do a diagnostic and see how much they learned by the end of our dance class. Maybe by teaching a simple dance first and then focusing on the students that might need more help. Ex- Private lessons or always placing someone near them that is excelling for them to follow. 

  • Everything between those two points are the transformation of where you want your students to go.

a. Add some depth (details) to each unit (explain what will happen in each of them).

b. Feel free to move ideas around

c. Plan the mechanics of the course


3. Why are empathy maps important to develop the curriculum? Empathy maps help you understand your students' perspective so that they can utilize what they’ve learned on a deeper level.

4. Why are adjustments and improvements to the curriculum necessary?

Part 3 - Producing the material

Part 4 - how to improve over time

  • Make an adjustment

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