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Dance Education Resources

The following is a list of reference materials I often use in my units:

 

  • General Dance Education:
      1. Doug Lemov - Teach Like a Champion
      2. Brenda Pugh McCutchen - Teaching Dance as Art in Education
      3. NDEO Online Forum: "Higher Education", "K-12", "Men in Dance"
      4. Dance Education in Practice Magazine
      5. Journal of Education in Dance
      6. Helene Scheff, Marty Sprague & Susan McGreevy-Nichols - Experiencing Dance From Student to Dance Artist
      7. Constance A. Schrader - A Sense of Dance: Exploring Your Movement Potential
      8. Julia Thompson - The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day
  • Inclusive Dance education:
      1. Karen A. Kaufmann - Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance
      2. Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance, Grades PreK - 12: Dance Education for Diverse Learners
      3. NDEO Online Forum: "Dance and Disability"
      4. Ana Rubinstein - Strategies for Teaching Dance to Children in a Public School Mixed-Ability Setting
      5. Axis Dance Theatre: www.axisdance.org
      6. Lynne T. Diaz-Rico - A Course for Teaching English Learners
      7. Lynne T. Diaz-Rico - The Crosscultural Language, and Academic Development Handbook, A Complete K-12 Reference Guide
      8. Jan W. Valle & David J. Connor - Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices
      9. Spencer J. Salend - Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices
  • Classroom Management:
        1. Fred Jones - Tools for Teaching
        2. Rafe Esquith - Real Talk for Real Teachers
        3. Rafe Esquith - Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire
        4. Kathleen Cushman & Laura Rodgers - Fires in the Middle School Bathroom
        5. Carol Cummings - Winning Strategies for Classroom Management
        6. Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong - The First Days of School: How To Be an Effective Teacher
    • Rubrics:
        1. Rubric Maker "Rubistar": http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.ph
        2. Rick Smith - Visuals and Rubrics to Teach Procedures, Save Your Voice, and Love Your Students
        3. Germaine L. Taggart, Sandra J. Phifer, Judy A. Nixon, and Marilyn Wood - Rubrics, A Handbook for Construction and Use
    • Improvisation/ Composition:
        1. Justine Reeve - Dance Improvisations: Warm-Ups, Games, and Choreographic Tasks
        2. Pamela Anderson Sofras - Dance Composition Basics: Capturing the Choreographer's Craft
        3. A. T. De Keersmaeker and B. Cvejic - Drumming and Rain
        4. Lynner Anne Blom & L. Tarin Chaplin - The Intimate Act of Choreography
    • Dance Technique & Kinesiology:
        1. Eric Franklin - Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance
        2. E. Gaynor Minden - The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide To the Techniques, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet
        3. Daniel Lewis - The Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon
        4. Irene Dowd - Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy
        5. Theodore Dimon, Jr. - Anatomy of the Moving Body: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints
    • Language Skills: Writing and Classroom Dialogue:
        1. Mary Adler & Eija Rougle - Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion
        2. Laurie Rozakis - Writing Great Research Papers
        3. William Zinsser - On Writing Well
        4. Wendy R. Oliver - Writing About Dance

 

 

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