Reflection #7

WHAT?: This week was so fun to see every one's different ideas for the dance presentation. I think it was so neat to see how we could incorporate dance into so many different subjects and lesson plans. I never really thought that dance could be used for all subjects and today I learned so many great ways on how to integrate it into my classroom. I think that dance is so important for the students to participate in especially if you are using it to reinforce a lesson, because I believe that what the students learn in the dance will stick so much better in their mind. Having something fun or memorable to reinforce learning helps so much to remember it!

SO WHAT?: I think that in class today we learned so many great and different ideas from each group. There are so many lesson ideas that you could twist and turn and make them work perfectly for you and your classroom. Without these ideas from the other students I would have no idea on a variety of dance ideas. I know that I will take many ideas, subjects, lesson plans, and dance moves from the presentations we seen in class today. I cannot wait to use them in my classroom even in field especially cause the video we watched today explained how many good things come from integrating the arts/dance into the classrooms. I think even, as the teacher, it is important for you to dance with your students that way they feel more comfortable to start dancing with the whole class. There are some things on the lessons from today that I am sure, as teachers, we will have to adjust to make it work just right for our own class but overall the ideas were wonderful and very helpful.

NOW WHAT?: From everything we learned today I plan on using dance so much more, because I actually feel more comfortable with the ideas and different dance moves we learned today. I feel that without doing these presentations in class that we all would not be near as comfortable with dance as we are after we have seen the whole class present their different ideas. I think in order to integrate dance into my classroom with multiple subjects I would have to experiment different dance ideas and lessons to see what worked and what doesn't work. I think that it would take a lot of trial and error; however, I believe that dance would be a major hit with the classroom because the kids would think it was so much fun just like the class did today! There are so many ways to use dance in the classroom it would just take some research to see where, as a teacher, you think it would work best. I know now that I am going to start integrating dance a lot more into my lesson plans. It makes learning so much more fun and comprehendable. I plan on teaching my future class many things with dance now because I seen so many different areas where you could apply it to!