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Professional Learning: Infusing Creative Process into Elementary Dance Education

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This workshop for all elementary educators will connect the VDOE Dance Arts Standards of Learning strands of Creative Process and Technique and Application as they relate to dance integration and dance-making. Teachers will learn tools for facilitating improvisation based on classroom content that guides students to generate movement possibilities and then make movement choices to set choreographic phrases. Clear, repeatable dance integration strategies for elementary educators will be highlighted. The workshop will include a template for students to reflect and respond to the work of their peers. Rooted in the Elements of Dance (body, action, space, time, and energy) the activities in this workshop are applicable to all dance styles. This session is for dance educators as well as general education teachers looking to begin or improve dance integration strategies.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Dance Education Observation Resource

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The purpose of this resource is to support school and division administrators in observations and coaching conversations for dance arts teachers in Virginia public schools. The strategies listed support effective instruction connected to skills and concepts of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Key Features of Effective Lesson and Unit Plans

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This resource is intended to be used by educators, school, and division leadership to evaluate instructional materials for quality. When lesson plans, unit plans, and other instructional activities are from outside sources, division staff and educators may use and adapt these key features to evaluate the materials. In addition, these key features can be used as a guide for locally developed instructional materials that support the curriculum. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Fine Arts through the Lens of Multilingual Learners

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Participants will explore resources, learn strategies, and practice instructional routines that elevate language and enhance language acquisition in fine arts classrooms. Participants will explore resources that integrate English language development into the fine arts curriculum, learn strategies to support the development of English, and practice instructional routines that elevate language in fine arts classrooms.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Video Performances from Home

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With the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, dancers and choreographers found themselves confined to their homes and unable to meet and work together in common spaces. Creative solutions for dance rehearsal and performance were developed over the months of quarantine as dance companies found ways for their members to collaborate in the virtual world. Dancers rehearsed at home and recorded their performances. Choreographers created and directed from afar, instead of in-person. These adjustments resulted in innovative solutions such as the use of the split-screen, remixing digital work, or the layering of video performances into one final product.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Instructional Plan: Learning About Native Modern Dance/Indigenous Contemporary Dance

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Students will review in brief Native American history and elements of traditional Native American dance. Students will identify elements of traditional Native American culture and formal Modern/Contemporary dance aesthetics as they blend in Native Modern Dance, also referred to as Indigenous Contemporary Dance. This lesson is part two of a three-unit series designed to scaffold with each other. If the teacher wishes to provide the complete multi-unit lesson, please see lessons titled:Part 1: Learning about Native American Culture through DancePart 2: Primitivism and Identity in Early Modern Dance

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

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