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Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology

The instruction to �use more of the back of your leg� is sometimes employed by teachers to encourage greater use of the hamstring muscles when the feet are weight bearing, particularly when the teacher feels that the student is overusing the �front of the legs� (quadriceps femoris).

Teaching Movement Education eBook

Location is the category title given to self- and general space, suggesting where the movement takes place. Self-space comprises each child�s individual working space, and general space is the total space you are providing the child for movement.

Lesson Plans for Creative Dance

The range in terms of development and previous experience at this age is evident. Some children can skip and gallop, others pick up quickly given the opportunity, and a few might not be developmentally ready to skip until partway through the year.

Teaching Children Dance-3rd Edition

This dance uses locomotor movements or wheelchair movement and still shapes.

Healthy and Sustainable Fundraising Activities eBook

When planning a fundraising event, an essential element to consider is budgeting. For those new to the process, a budget is simply a quantified, planned financial course of action over a period of time. It attempts to estimate costs and revenues.

Social Dance-3rd Edition

The cross-body lead is a useful transition to smoothly connect many variations as well as to rotate 180 degrees with your partner. Start in a closed position and do a box step. The cross-body lead takes two repetitions of the rumba�s SQQ rhythm.

Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance 2nd Edition eBook

Explore spatial paths by drawing lines on a piece of paper and then transposing them into space.

Complete Guide to Primary Dance With Web Resource

This is where teachers personalise the learning by setting tasks that meet individual and group needs so that every child is challenged and is able to achieve his or her personal best.

Complete Guide to Primary Dance With Web Resource

Assessment for learning is �the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there.� Assessment Reform Group 2002.

Studying Dance eBook With Web Resource

Studying any subject on campus necessitates dedication, curiosity, and responsibility, but this is especially true for dance. Successfully studying dance on campus as a dance major, dance minor, or dance enthusiast requires you to push yourself as a student.

DVD & Music CD Dance Education Improve Literacy 22 Units

Articles and Links

Teach your students the uniqueness of other cultures through dance and experience

View a video clip from the Multicultural Folk Dance Treasure Chest.

Dance and education make a successful team!

Drawing upon her book, Partnering Dance and Education, Judith Lynne Hanna was an invited speaker at the recent Learning and the Brain Conference in Washington, DC.

HK has your high school and college dance resources

Human Kinetics offers great dance textbooks that will help your students become dance artists.

HK author and acquisition editor, Gayle Kassing, honored as NDA's 2010 Scholar/Artist

Dr. Gayle Kassing will also present at the 2010 AAHPERD in Indianapolis in March.

Listen to an interview with Gayle Kassing on dance history

Podcast interview with Gayle Kassing, author of History of Dance, Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, and Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique

HK releases first book ever on aerial dance

View a video clip from the DVD included in the first book ever on aerial dance.

HK author Judi Fey wins R. Tait McKenzie award for distinguished service

The award is given annually for leadership and innovation and service in the field of health, physical education, recreation, and dance.

Interview with Dudley Laufman about new book Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling

Podcast interview with Dudley Laufman, coauthor of the new book Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling

HK author Helene Scheff, RDE, honored with Outstanding Registered Dance Educator Award from the NDEO and Curtain Call Costumes

The author of four Human Kinetics books was the first private sector dance teacher to be honored with this award.