Fiona O'Reilly posed a few questions for consideration...
Through reflecting on the readings and the videos, what unique contributions does dance make to a child’s development?
Dance contributes to the physical development of children, their motor co-ordination for instance. Dance also develops children's listening; their thinking in the process of generating ideas, and their performance skills. As with all Arts, I think dance has strong ties with emotional expression also, see the lesson plans i have included in blog folder.
The main differences in the teaching approach, as the children get older, is in the less literal and more abstract interpretations that the lessons demand of the students...right down to the music itself, where the older students don't use music with lyrics...older students could play more of a role in selecting music analogous to particular moods, feelings, objects.
The role of the teacher changes as the age group increases by becoming less proscriptive and letting the students sequence movements and develop their own more complex interpretations and expression.
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