Review /Mid-term Quiz

 


 

 

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 Unit: Assessment

 Theme: Mid-Term Quiz

 

Introduction

Every semester I assess your understanding of the content covered so far. Just right before the progress report's dead line, you test your own abilities to retain some of the themes we have learned and experienced together.  Today's quiz evaluates how efficient I have been in communicating ideas about Methodology of Teaching Dance based on your responses to the questions below.

 

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Objectives

  • Understand the nature of self-assessment
  • Make sense of the various concepts explored in class
  • Gather an awareness of assessment that is conducive to further learning
  • Experience what is like to put into practice the content learned in class

 

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Main Lesson

 




VOCABULARY


1. Teaching Philosophy Statement:

Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. ... It develops these ideas with specific, concrete examples of what the teacher and learners will do to achieve those goals. Importantly, your teaching philosophy statement also explains why you choose these options.

 

2. Mission Statement:

A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation.

 

3. Vision Statement:

A vision statement is an inspirational statement of an idealistic emotional future of a company or group. Vision describes the basic human emotion that a founder intends to be experienced by the people the organization interacts with, it grounds the group so it can actualize some existential impact on the world.

 

 4. Curriculum:

A curriculum is the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. More specifically, the curriculum is a planned sequence of instruction. It is a view of the student's experiences based on the instructional goals of the teachers and the school. 

 

5. Macro-Curriculum

In curriculum design, macro means understanding where you want to end up before you begin.


6. Micro-Curriculum

The micro-curriculum relates to the specific content within topics or sub-topics, set out as specific knowledge, skills and experiences.


7. Action Plan

The final core component of a classroom behavior management plan is an action plan—a well-thought-out timeline for teaching and sharing the rules, procedures, and consequences with students, families, and other relevant school personnel. The action plan includes: What needs to be done. How it will be done.

 The action plan allows the teacher to know exactly what to do every minute of instruction. It helps the teacher to control behaviors and and be able to teach without disruption. It is important to teach these behaviors, reason why the action plan is part of curriculum building.

 8. MindUp

 MindUP helps children form positive relationships, and act with kindness and compassion. MindUP teaches the skills and knowledge children need to regulate stress and emotions. 

 

 IV
 
A Note to Remember
 
Notice that this assessment is based on an honor system. My objective is that you explain these concepts in your own words.
 
 
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 Case Study 
 
The Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies derives from  Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy founded in 1983. Hancock Center is expanding its focus to provide more creative arts psychotherapy services to people of all ages and abilities, on-site in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.  
 
Rena Kornblum, featured in this video, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist with over 40 years of professional experience as a dance/movement therapist. She is also a professor in the University of Wisconsin and the Dance Movement Therapy Certificate Director. Deborah Thomas was the Clinical Supervisor, Consultant and Founder (in memoriam) of The Hancock Center.
 
In this video, they explain how children face all kinds of challenges from personal mental health issues to bullying in schools to issues in the home. For these reasons, The Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy in Madison, Wis., created a program that uses movement and dance in schools to teach kids about healthy boundaries, expressing their feelings, and how to stay safe. 
 

 
 

 
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Discussion Questions
 


1. What is questionable about the Roman method of memorizing and speaking publicly as a form of learning?

 

2.  How can Dance be an important learning experience for all kids (speakers of other languages, children with special needs, etc)?

 

 3. Why are empathy maps important when developing the curriculum?  

 

4. What is the importance of the Action Plan when managing behaviors in the classroom/studio ?


5. Based on Kenneth Robinson's speech, how can we create a safe and creative learning space for dance?


6. Why should teachers, parents and students be familiar with the vision and mission statements of educational institutions? 

 

7. Read the quotes below and briefly explain the teaching philosophy behind the statements.

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 b)


 c)



 

 8. When designing your ideal studio, which are some of the practical considerations you must understand to make it a successful business?


9. What would be an example of a macro-curriculum in dance and what would be its equivalent as a micro-curriculum in dance?


 10. After watching the video posted in your Case Study, in terms of education, what is the purpose of The Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies?

 

 VIII

Activity

 

 PRAXIS

 Gather with your group and device a mini-lesson designed to teach a dance activity referencing Black History Month. 

 

IX


Journaling


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Glossary


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Sources


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Students' Work



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