The Key Competencies and Dance
Writer: Julie Cadzow. Dance engages students in learning that contributes to the development of the Key Competencies.These are some of the ways that students can develop the Key Competencies through participation in Dance activities.
Managing Self
Using the body as an instrument for artistic expression through movement
Motivation - participating in introductory sessions, offering ideas
Goals - evaluating dance activities, reflecting on performances
"Can do" attitude - developing practical knowledge (PK strand), feedback/feed forward about composition tasks (DI strand)
Knowing who they are, where they come from and where they fit in - UC strand activities,
Aware of actions affecting others - Awareness of Dance Element of Space, safe dance practice, group tasks, pair work,
Know when to follow lead or make own decisions - DI strand
Evaluation - self-reflection on dance compositions, practical dance knowledge and performance, and developing skills in self-appraisal
Developing constructive attitudes and approaches to challenges - using scaffolded dance activities to develop confidence and technique
Work and Study skills - organising dance work to meet deadlines
Physical Skills - improving co-ordination, flexibility, agility, strength and endurance through participation in Dance, developing an awareness and control of locomotor and non-locomotor skills, developing body care skills though participation in dance warm-up and warm-down activities
Relating to Others
Interacting with others - class, group and paired dance activities, performance, discussions
Interacting in a variety of contexts - as above
Listening skills - responding through movement
Recognise different points of view - group composition tasks, observation and feedback of performances, exposure to different Dance genre
Negotiating skills - discussions about composition tasks
Sharing of ideas - as above, dance reviews, performance
Open to new ideas - reviewing and discussing dances, DI activities
Adaptable - using Dance devices and structures, manipulating movement
Read situations - compete v co-operate - rehearsal and performance contexts
Evaluation - reflection on group dance compositions and performance, and developing skills in appraising others
Commitment - perseverance and responsibility in contributing to group dance activities
Communication - presenting other's dance works to a range of audiences Consideration - considering other's cultural beliefs, protocols and practices when composing, rehearsing and performing dance
Participating and Contributing
Participating locally, nationally, globally - UC strand - and awareness of dance from around the world
Being part of kinship, interest, culture - performing dance as a group and receiving feedback, Cultural Dance festivals, rehearsal process for performance Contributing - to the class, the cultural life and well-being of the school and the wider school community in dance performances
Purposes of learning, work or recreation - understanding the purposes of Dance within their own and other's cultures
Responding as a group member - dance review activities
Connecting to others - participation in a range of grouped dance activities
Group activities - used constantly in dance lessons - warm-ups, composition tasks, performance and responding
New roles as confidence develops - participating, performing, responding
Balancing rights, roles, responsibilities - productions, sharing tasks, weight sharing and taking
Exploring and questioning concepts and ideas through danceCollaboration - working with others to present dance for enjoyment, recreation and cultural expression
Using Language, Symbols and Texts
Dance as a text - communication through movement
Choreographing dance to make objects and images as forms of personal and cultural expression.
Working with and making meaning from codes, language and symbols for representing and communicating information - using actions words in DI activities, using dance vocabulary, narrative dances, pathway cards, poems and stories => dances
Texts of all kinds - written, spoken, visual, informative and imaginative, informal and formal, mathematical, scientific and technological - research activities
Interpret - using diagrams and shapes to create movement and presenting work to a range of audiences
Use words, numbers, images, movement, and technologies in range of contexts - dance vocabulary, pictures, stories and poetry as stimuli for dance
ICT - production technologies for dance = lighting, set design, costuming, film, videoing dances, computer programmes, constructing new dance knowledge via the Internet
Access information - researching dance genres
Numeracy skills - recognising and using rhythms, patterns and relationships in time and space, using repetition, sequence and variation in dance works.
Thinking
Processes: creative, critical, metacognitive, reflective - reviewing own and others choreography and dances
Research, organization, evaluation for - exploring movement, organising movement into sequences for dance
Developing understanding, making decisions, shaping actions, constructing knowledge - exploring movement, practical knowledge, combining, linking, reorganising movement
Intellectual curiosity - differentiated practical and research activities, developing choreography
Problem solving skills - exercising imagination, initiative, flexibility and judgementthough movement, experimentation with new movement
Information Skills - locating information from various sources, organising and presenting movement and dance research, analysing and synthesising movement ideas
Active seekers, users and creators of knowledge - PK, DI and CI strands
Reflect on own learning - student evaluations, reviews
Draw on personal knowledge and intuitions - PK => DI
Ask questions - introductory activities, during DI and CI tasks
Challenge basis of assumptions and perceptions - performing movement in a new way, observing other's dance
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