Dance education is still a subject that is very new to me, as I am sure is the case with many students in our classrooms today. Often many people do not see the importance of Dance in the classroom because they see it as recreation rather than an academic form of expression. In order to further familiarize myself with the importance of Dance so I can show that to my students I searched for some resources that would help me. The video shown below is a TED Talk from a Dance educator who speaks about the importance of Dance in educating the child as a whole. She clearly illustrates how Dance gets students to use the creative process in order to solve problems and builds on skills they can use in a variety of subject areas.
Below are some videos by Sir Ken Robinson, a well known advocate for bringing back creativity into schools that have inspired me to foster creativity in my own instruction. They helped me to realize the disservice we are providing to students by focusing solely on Mathematics and Language Arts, and not on creative thinking. In these videos Sir Ken Robinson provides some incredible arguments as to why we need to foster creativity in our students to prepare them for life.
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