1. SPRING SEMESTER 2008 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
      2. Movement Language Elements for Dance In Education
      3. Small gym EDB 7540
      4. COURSE DESCRIPTION
      5. COURSE GOALS
      6. REQUIRED READING
      7. Draft of Final Dance Piece 20%
      8. Final Dance Piece 20% (Pass? Fail)
      9. Performance ATTENDANCE 10%
      10. Readin g Portfolio 10% (2 COMPONENTS)

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SPRING SEMESTER 2008
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
EDUC 330-3
E100
Movement Language Elements for Dance In Education
Danielle Vezina
Office: EDB
9501
Email: dsvezina(ãyahoo.com
Time: Monday 4:30-7:20PM
Office hours: TBA
Small gym EDB 7540
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for people with or without dance training, who want to teach
dance in arts, P.E. classroom contexts, or integrate movement education within a wider
professional community. In this experiential class students will develop an understanding
of the movement concepts (action, space, time, force, and relationship), which are the
framework for making and teaching dance. This course will explore dance as a non
verbal and artistic language, and students will be introduced to the creative process
involved when using and teaching dance as an expressive art form. Opportunity will be
given to utilize the art of improvisation as a way of discovering movement language.
Opportunity will be given to incorporate dance movement in the various areas of
curriculum, as well as the centrality of movement to embodied curricular learning. Time
will be given to explore movement, create and perform, as well as observe and take part
in the work of others.
COURSE GOALS
1) For students to explore/become familiar with the elements of movement.
2)
For students to become familiar with the BC dance curriculum.
3)
For students to leave the course with teachable materials and strategies.
4)
For students to have experience in creating and performing.
5)
For students to develop a personal rational as to how/why dance should/should
not be included within the educational setting.
ASSIGNMENTS
(details
inside)
1. Attendance
5%
2. Participation
5%
3.
group dance (A) 10% (assessment is split three ways: peer evaluation/teacher
evaluation/intergroup dynamic evaluation)
4.
group dance (B) 20% (assessment of lesson plans leading to group dance)
5.
Draft of your final piece 20%
6. Reading Portfolio 10%

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7.
Performance attendance 10%
8. Final Dance presentation 20% (pass/fail)
REQUIRED READING
Gilbert, Anne
G.
Creative Dance for
All Ages.
National Dance Association: APHERD.
Courseware Package- available at SFU Bookstore- hopefully during the first week of
classes.
PLEASE COME TO CLASS PREPARED TO MOVE AND DANCE. This means that
you should be dressed appropriately. Wear clothes that do not restrict your range of
movement, and not so baggy that we can't see what it is you are doing.
ASSIGNMENTS
** This course requires ACTIVE participation, and strict regular attendance.
Failure to
attend class will result in a deduction of 5% per absence on your final grade. You
may miss one class without penalty.
Attendance
5%: Attending every class is mandatory and expected. If unable to
attend class- medical certificates will be required/ or exceptional circumstances
Participation
5%: Attending every class does not entitle a full 100% participation grade.
Participation requires that you actively take part in the class, that you are able to discuss
the readings when called on to do so. That you actively work with your classmates in a
cooperative manner. That you don't spend class time designated for working on your
final piece sitting on the floor 'discussing' your final piece. It also means that while
working in group that you can actively take part in the decision making process, that you
can both work in a group setting as leader, as well as follow the direction of others.
Active participation also requires that you challenge yourself to move beyond comfort
zones, so that you are able to try new ideas, generate new ways of moving, and build your
range of movement from week to week. Participation will be based on my own personal
observations.
Group Dance 10%
(two
parts)
Part
A Create and teach a group dance. The focus of the dance will be up to your group.
You can focus on PE skills, Fine arts skills, language arts, Science concepts etc....
1)
The educ 330 class will be divided into four groups. Each group will know
exactly how many students will be learning their dance.
2) On the presentation day each group will be given half the class time to teach their
dance to another group

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Evaluation for this assignment will be a combination of peer review as well as my own
review of the presentation/teaching/ and applicability of the dance. The group will also
have the opportunity to assess the participation of all group members individually. The
final individual grade for this will be based on 1/3 peer review, 1/3 my review, and 1/3
in-group review.
Part B 20%
The entire group will be responsible for puffing together
5
complete lesson
plans which support the knowledge and skills necessary for learning the material that is
presented in the dance piece. The format of the lesson plan will be as follows:
1. Lesson Plan title/focus
2. PLO'S (prescribed Learning Outcomes) see BC curriculum
3. warm up
4. exploring concept
5. developing skills
6.
creating
7. cooling down
** In your creative dance textbook on page 38 it gives a detailed explanation of what is
expected in each of these sections. You may use any exercises from your creative dance
textbook/and or/ you may create your own/or go to another source.
** * include a short rational for the dance (why do it? Why have students learn this
dance?) this should be no more than one page double spaced.
**** also include a written version of your dance/including counts if possible.
Once reviewed the lesson plans and dance will be made available to your peers/ these
materials should help to start you off with some materials that are ready to be brought
into your classrooms.
Assessment of this section will be done by myself. Details will be given out.
Draft of Final Dance Piece 20%
The draft will be a work in progress- the concept will be clear, and movement sequences
will be in the process of being developed. The draft is to be thought of like a sketch- all
parts will be visible- but still need some revision and development. A draft is not concept
only. The draft is due to be performed in front of me as well as peers. Please come
prepared. The closer your piece is to completion - the better your mark! This means it is
both worth time and effort to begin working on your piece as early as possible.
PEER REVIEW OF DRAFT
(FAILURE TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN REVIEW WILL
RESULT IN —10% OFF THE FINAL GRADE)
Each student will have the job of reviewing a Peers draft. The peer review will give the
performer some clear and useable feedback on how the piece is working, what needs
work, and what works well. This review should be an honest review that gives the
performer some feedback that is constructive, and supportive of the dancers initiative.
Two copies of the review should be made, one for the dancer, one for the instructor

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On the DAY that the drafts are due, each student will have the task of assessing a peers
draft. The assessment and comments that you prepare for your colleague will be turned
in to me the following week for me to review, and passed along to your colleague- to help
in their creative process.
Final Dance Piece 20% (Pass? Fail)
Choreograph an original dance piece- based on your improvisations and explorations of
conceptual and movement elements from this course. The dance can be performed by
yourself, or you can work in collaboration and dance with one other classmate. The
piece should be no longer than three minutes in length- no shorter than a minute and a
half.
Performance ATTENDANCE 10%
You will be required to attend one dance presentation- OUTSIDE OF CLASS TIME. For
the time it takes to attend the performance you will be credited by having the last class of
educ 330 cancelled. You must hand in your ticket stub for proof of attendance.
Readin g
Portfolio 10% (2 COMPONENTS)
1) each student will have a personalized file folder which I keep. To this file each student
is expected to hand in a reading log for all of the readings which come from the
courseware package. No reading log is required for the readings from the creative dance
textbook.
Your reading log will:
1)
summarize the key concepts of the reading. This should be done in one paragraph.
2)
Include three CRITICAL questions that you have with regard to the reading.
3)
Classroom or educational applicability ( how/why to apply the ideas within
education) One to three Paragraphs.
** These reading logs will not be graded individually- rather they will taken as a whole
as being 1) above standard, 2) meeting standards, or 3) not meeting standard =
5%
Related to your readings will be a personal short one page rational for the inclusion of
dance within education based on and supported by your readings =
5%.
This is to be
handed in on the second last day of class.

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