Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Thinking About Dance Education | |
Why-Understanding Dance as Arts Education | |
Viewing Educational Dance From an Arts Education Perspective | |
What Is an Arts Education Perspective? | |
What Are the Defining Characteristics of Educational Dance? | |
What Drives an Arts Education Perspective? | |
Examining How National Arts Initiatives Affect Dance | |
National Dance Content and Achievement Standards | |
The "Nation's Report Card" in Dance | |
Other Initiatives That Affect Dance Education | |
Need for Arts Alliances | |
Advocacy | |
Adopting Your Roles and Responsibilities for Teaching | |
Why Become a Dance Specialist? | |
Examining K-12 Teaching Roles and Responsibilities | |
Preparing to Teach Dance as Art in K-12 | |
Emphasizing Aspects of Student-Centered Learning | |
Taking a Child-Centered Perspective | |
Kinesthetic-Motor Development (Moving and Learning) | |
Aesthetic-Artistic Development | |
Cognitive-Intellectual Development (Thinking, Perceiving, and Processing) | |
Psychological-Social Development (Feeling and Interacting) | |
Teaching the Whole Child | |
Identifying the Cornerstones of Dance as Art in Education | |
Four Cornerstones | |
Pivotal Role of Inquiry | |
Overview of the Dance Cornerstone Curriculum Framework | |
How the Cornerstones Lay the Foundation for Accountability | |
What-Clarifying the Content of K-12 Educational Dance (The Cornerstones) | |
Dancing and Performing: Cornerstone 1 | |
Relation to National Standards and Beyond | |
Overview of This Cornerstone | |
Artful Use of the Dance Elements | |
Vocabulary Systems Used in Dance | |
Dance Technique and Skill Development | |
Dance Cornerstone Curriculum (DCC) Framework | |
Creating and Composing: Cornerstone 2 | |
Relation to National Standards and Beyond | |
Overview of This Cornerstone | |
Creative Process and Products | |
Creative Dance for Children | |
Choreography | |
Dance Cornerstone Curriculum (DCC) Framework | |
Knowing History, Culture, and Context: Cornerstone 3 | |
Relation to National Standards and Beyond | |
Overview of This Cornerstone | |
Dance Across Cultures: Cultural Diversity | |
Dance Through Time: Dance History | |
Preservation and Documentation | |
Dance Cornerstone Curriculum (DCC) Framework | |
Analyzing and Critiquing: Cornerstone 4 | |
Relation to National Standards and Beyond | |
Overview of This Cornerstone | |
Aesthetic Valuing | |
Critical Thinking and Processing | |
Dance Criticism | |
Dance Cornerstone Curriculum (DCC) Framework | |
How-Presenting Dance as Art in Education | |
Constructing Artistic Bridges to Other Disciplines | |
Relation to National Standards and Beyond | |
Dance's Role Across the Curriculum | |
Different Models for Integrating the Arts in Education | |
Teaching Other Academics Through Dance | |
Collaborating Across the Arts | |
Creating and Maintaining an Effective Arts Learning Environment | |
Creating a Positive Arts Environment | |
Managing Arts Instruction: The Precursor to Artistic Expression | |
Scheduling | |
About Facilities | |
Survive and Thrive | |
Investigating the Arts Savvy Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Triad | |
Curriculum Content | |
Instruction | |
Assessment | |
Integrating the Triad | |
Integrating the Cornerstones to Create Units of Study in Dance | |
Relating the Cornerstones | |
Teaching by Integrating the Cornerstones | |
Using the Eight-Step Plan to Maximize Artistic Results | |
Varying an Eight-Step Lesson | |
Creating a Unit of Study Using an Arts Education Perspective | |
Creating an Integrated Unit of Study | |
Sample Unit: Examining a Work by David Parsons | |
Building Your Own Unit of Study Around a Choreographic Work | |
Building Your Own Unit of Study Around a Style | |
Reflecting on Teaching | |
Ethical Dimension of Teaching | |
Relational Teaching | |
School Renewal | |
Reflective Practitioner | |
Developing an Arts-Oriented Teaching Portfolio | |
Preparing a Perspectives Notebook | |
Preparing Your Professional Teaching Portfolio | |
Closing Statement | |
Reference Lists of Concepts | |
Forms, Checklists, Sample Items, and Articles | |
Professional Organizations and National Initiatives | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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