| 131 | Tuesday, April 9, 2002 |
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| 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | San Diego Convention Center:Ballroom 6F |
| NDA/National Dance Association |
| Movement Literacy: Using Dance to Teach Academic Concepts |
| A four hour workshop that has two goals:(1)Delving into the body/mind connection by working with the motor basis of learning- - a theory that is being researched by neuroscientists, and which is described in Education on the Edge of Possibility by Renate and Geoffrey Caine. Participants will begin to translate academic concepts into movement through an exploration framework that begins with a motivation; (2) Guided by the National Standards for Dance and the National Standards for Middle School English and Literature, simple poetry generated from the Bio-Poem that middle shcool students often write is the basis for a guided choreographic process. |
Keyword(s): dance education, middle school issues, participatory
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| Presider: Sandra Cerny Minton, Emeritus Faculty University of Northern Colorado, Thornton, CO |
| Speakers: Noel Grady-Smith, Mineral Springs Middle A+ Academy, Winston-Salem, NC; and Sandra Cerny Minton, Emeritus Faculty University of Northern Colorado, Thornton, CO |
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Movement Literacy: Using Dance to Teach Academic Concepts
Sandra Cerny Minton, Emeritus Faculty University of Northern Colorado, Thornton, CO |
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"My Story, Our Story": The shared personal and shared experience of adolescents is set to spoken word and music producing works that are "owned" in a significant way
Noel Grady-Smith, Mineral Springs Middle A+ Academy, Winston-Salem, NC |
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