Calasanz.MelissaAdylia 1
LEAP 198 Senior Project
Student Supervisor of the Glendale Community College
DANCE 107
Survey of Dance Teaching Methodology Class
Weekly Reflection Paper No. 1
My first assignment as the Assistant to
Doran Krannig, Glendale Community College Dance Department Chair, was to
observe the DANCE 107 Class and determine how I could best assist Doran as well
as the students, in preparing them to complete their first assignment.
By observing the DANCE 107 class,
looking over the syllabus, and conferring with Dora, it was determined that the
students needed help preparing to complete their first dance lesson plan which
would later become part of their end of term Final Project Portfolio.
The students were allowed to choose the
style of dance for the dance lesson plan. The style choices were jazz, ballet,
hip-hop, modern, and creative movement. However, since the majority of the students
had little to no experience teaching children it was important to educated them
on what is suitable for public school children, grades K-12, in terms of
appropriate warm up, cool down, and the difficulty of content and movements, as
well as the length of choreography. Additionally, each lesson plan needed to
incorporate documentation of California Department of Education Dance Standards
in relation to the content contained within the dance lesson plan. I determined
it would be helpful to locate the most up-to-date resources, referencing the
California Department of Education Dance Standards, so the students could
become familiar with them and apply them to their lesson plan.
While researching California Department
of Education Dance Standards, I found several useful resources for the
students: Visual and Performing Arts
Framework for California Public Schools Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/vpaframewrk.pdf; California
Standards for the Teaching Profession 2009 http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/standards/CSTP-2009.pdf
; and most importantly California
Department of Education Dance Standards 2013 California State Board of
Education Grade Nine Through Twelve-Proficient Visual and Performing Arts:
Dance Content Standards http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/damain.asp.
Once I had completed the research, and
gathered the resources that would be of most value to the students as they
completed their first assignment, I composed the “Glendale Community College Dance
107 Survey of Dance Teaching Methodology Lesson Plan and Dance Standards Study
Guide.”
Though Dora gave me a week to complete
this first assignment, I knew many of the students were enthusiastic to begin
work on their lesson plan as soon as possible so I took the challenge to have
the document completed and available to the students before the start of the
next Dance 107 Survey of Dance Teaching Methodology Class. Though this
self-imposed challenge only allowed me less and one day to conduct research and
to create the study guide, I was thrilled to begin work as her Intern/Assistant,
and found the information very useful.
Not only did the research allow me to
become familiar with an aspect of dance education that I had no previous
knowledge of (the California Department of Education Dance Standards) and how
to apply the information to the process of creating a dance lesson plan, the
research allowed me the opportunity to become aware that social dances are
still included in grade school dance education.
I am happy to report that each student upon
completion of their first draft of their first lesson plan, they had each
incorporated at least 3 Dance Standards. Next Wednesday they will be submitting
the final draft of their first lesson plan which will give up the opportunity to
determine if the dance standards included do in fact correspond with the
content of their proposed class.
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