A Degree in Dance Education

After watching these videos, would you consider Dance Education as a subject of study for Graduate School? Explain your answer.

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Lingzi Ye 

DAN 385 Teaching plan

Lingzi Ye

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Yoga Treatment Dance - Teaching Strategies

Video Concepts

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TEXT:

Yoga Treatment Dance for Learning

Text Concepts

Stretching and relaxing of Yoga Treatment Dance

Stretching

sensing

feeling

motor nerves

rhythm

body

force element

time element

space element

unison

complement

contrast

shapes

Instructor: Lingzi Ye

Elementary: College students (above 18-year-old)

COMPETENCY:
 
The student can learn some introduction movements of Yoga Treatment dance, which includes stretching, feeling, and rhythms, emphasizing various body parts (head, arms, legs, back, and shoulders)
It focuses on stretching the muscles of necks, shoulders, arms, and legs, which will release the pain of our joints and bodies.

OBJECTIVES: 

·                     Demonstrates the introduction for Yoga Treatment Dance

·                     Demonstrates the stretching movements (emphasizing our neck, arms, and legs)

·                     Demonstrates repetition or making patterns of movement

·                     Explores the feelings of the body (nerves, joints, fingertips)

·                     Uses rhythm to explore and create movement ideas

MATERIALS

Only need the comfortable clothes.

WARMUP

1.Breath in/out (x2)

2. Stretching our necks.

3. Move up our shoulders and arms

4. Move toes/heels.

5. Bend down.

6. Move knees

7. Jumping in the circle.

8. Rabbit Jumping movements x2

9. Imaging 

10. Chest

                         

Core Lessons

1.      Breathing.

a.       At this part, students need to calm down themselves and try to relax their whole bodies.

b.      Imaging you are in the garden, breathing the fresh air. (We count 7 deep breathes.)

c.       Trying to let yourself concentrate to your specific bodies, from browns to left eyes, from left eyes to our noses. What do you feel on your top point of noses? Then, we try to get the feeling of our legs and toes.

d.      When you find you are fully relaxed, open your eyes.

2.      Stretching shoulders.

a.       Let’s put our left hand on our right ears, making your head moving left. You will feel a powerful stretching of our muscles on our shoulders. Just stretching slightly and slowly, making sure you are within your tolerances of your own bodies.

b.      Opposite gestures like a.

3.      Windmill type gestures

a.       Let’s kneel on the floor, moving our arms. Making our two arms alternate with each other, like a windmill.

b.      When you are doing this gesture, you may hear the clicking of your joints. Never mind. This will help you relax your joints of your shoulders.

4.      Cat pose

a.       Kneel on the floor, making our bodies like the square-shaped chairs. Rising your head as higher as you can. This will help us stretch the front muscles of our necks. Preventing the excessive forward of our necks.

5.      Child’s Pose 1

a.       Then bend your knees to the floor with an exhalation rest in Child’s Pose. This gesture will help us release the pressure of our life.

b.      Count 20 seconds.

6.      Mountain Type Standing

a.       Let’s start in Mountain pose; stand up tall, feet together or little apart, arms at your sides.

b.      Moving up to our toes, keeping this gesture. Then, trying to bend our knees. This gesture can help us stretch our back muscles of our legs. Preventing strain and cramp of our legs.

7.      Downward-facing dog

a.       Exhale into Downward Dog pose.

b.       Stop short of bringing the shoulders over the wrists when moving the body weight forward from Downward Dog.

c.       Count 10 seconds.

d.      Trying to put down your heel. This will help us get the most efficient and extremely stretching of our whole bodies.

8.      Child’s Pose 2

a.       Then bend your knees to the floor with an exhalation rest in Child’s Pose. This gesture will help us release the pressure of our life.

b.      Count 20 seconds.

c.       This time let’s put our arms forward. When you are breathing, trying to make your fingers forward as possible as you can.

9.      Relaxing the whole body

a.       Lie on the floor, closing your eyes.

b.      Breathing 7 times.

c.       Imaging there is a butterfly in the garden, it contains all of your stress, flying higher and higher. Then, throwing all of your pressure.

d.      Open your eyes and sit down.

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Yinghui Ma

Yinghui Ma

DAN 385

Final Lesson Plan

April 20^th, 2020

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38BdL5HqXk&t=17s

Age Level: Middle School, Grades 7-8 (Level VI)

Component: Movement Skills and Underlying Principles

Objectives:

1.      Using concentration, expression, and projection when performing.

2.      Executes different types of warm-ups required of various dance forms and styles.

3.      Explains the importance of exercise sequencing for injury prevention.

4.      Explores off-centered movement (spirals, tilts, falls) in a variety of directions.

5.      Is able to set personal goals for self-improvement.

Competencies:

1.      The student can execute different types of warm-ups required of various dance styles (ballet barre, modern floor work, jazz isolations etc) by leading class in a fifteen-minute original warm-up activity in ballet, modern, or jazz dance.

2.      The student can explain orally and in written form, the importance of warm-up sequencing for injury prevention.

3.      The student can execute at least three movement phrases that demonstrate off-centered movement (tilts, spirals, falls) in a variety of directions.

4.      The student can identify orally and in written form basic bones and muscles used in specific dance movements.

Materials:

·         Clothing good for moving (running and stretching), socks are recommended but not required

·         Shoes with heels

·         Space large enough to move in, two wings spans wide at the minimum

Warm-up (10 minutes): exercise/fitness inspired to get blood moving (offer modifications/alternatives as they come up)

·         Cardio

o   Jumping jacks, high-knee runs, butt-kick runs

o   Step-touch movement throughout head and shoulder stretches

·         Flexibility (facing front, fee hip-width apart)

o   Head: Move up-down, right-left, and rolling neck each way

o   Shoulders: Parallel squat with each shoulder roll forward, then add full arm swing forward, then repeat circling to the back

o   Ribs/Chest: Arms laterally from shoulders not going past shoulder height, isolate ribs by moving from left-right and up-down

o   Side: IT stretch into side fold to legs both left and right sides

o   Hips/Hamstrings/Quads: Squats with the shoulder rolls AND pulses in a front lunge facing the side on each side

o   Hold last lunge for stretch series (bend back leg for hip flexor, straighten front leg for hamstring/calf)

o   Back: spinal twists, butterfly, half pike and full pike stretches

·         Core strengthening

o   Sit ups or crunches for 8 in each direction (center, right oblique, left oblique)

o   If time, can repeat series in table top position

·         On their own, students can strength anything else they need to while teacher explains lesson plan and finds music for combination

·         Warm up music:

o   Happy music

Activity (20 mins): Basic Salsa dance

·         5 basic steps

o   isolation movements

o   Basic forward, Side to side, Sozy Q’s with walkover, B+, and Camina(walk to left)

o   change in rhythmic patterns

·         Teach by the order: 1 step at a time; then when finish the next step, practice and review the previous steps; then practice 5 steps with counts; then practice 5 steps with the music

o   Students can choose to change the order of the steps when they dance with the music

·         Music: The Best Salsa Song for Beginners - With Counting 123 567

Assessment:

·         Students would be asked to perform in groups in 3-4

·         Each time they perform, they will be asked to change the order of the 5 basic steps in the choreography without changing the counts of the rest of the routine. This will show if they can maintain the same rhythm/timing (they can also decide not to change the movement)

·         They will perform the combination three times: original choreography once, then their changes, then their changes again to see if they can refine their changes better

·         Before each performance, students will explain the movement that they changed; after the activity, they will reflect on their experience in a written format and describe the whole process

Differentiation:

·         Maintain an organized classroom and limit distractions.

·         Use music and voice inflection.

·         Break down instructions into smaller, manageable tasks.

·         Use multi-sensory strategies.

·         Give students with special needs opportunities for success.

Technology:

·         Phone or laptop for music and video recording