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Gayle Kassing, PhD, HK author and acquisitions editor, was honored as the 2010 National Dance Association (NDA) Scholar/Artist by the NDA Research Committee. Dr. Kassing has been a dance educator for more than 25 years, teaching at four different universities in physical education and fine arts undergraduate programs and graduate dance education programs. She has taught all levels of dance technique, pedagogy, dance production, dance teaching methods and curriculum design, and the history ...
Gayle Kassing, PhD, taught the history of dance for more than 25 years at four different universities. Kassing earned a BFA in ballet and theatre, an MS in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts, and an MAT in K-12 curriculum integrated with technology, for which she completed a multimedia history of dance technology project. Besides History of Dance, Kassing is also the author of Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, and Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique.
An interdisciplinary approach to dance education can prepare your students to meet the economic, social, and cultural demands of 21st-century life. These types of projects (critical analysis, choreography, and performance) promote dance literacy, which involves a deep understanding of the dance discipline, creative skills, and critical-thinking skills in order to make meaningful connections. Kassing earned a BFA in ballet and theater, an MS in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts, ...
Viewing dances and dance forms from around the world opens a window to students as how dance is a part of a society as recreation, a cultural tradition, or a theatrical event. Students seeing and responding to performances of different dance forms can begin to identify and characterize dance forms, which in turn can support deeper experiences , more background from which to respond in discussion or writing about dance. Researching a dance or dances with a culture fosters a deeper ...
History of Dance provides a systematic method to guide your study of dancers, dance, and dance works chronologically by linking them to historical periods. History of Dance offers various ways to dig up the past and a systematic method to guide your study of dancers, dance, and dance works chronologically by linking them to historical periods. In parts II and III, a section called Dance Designs categorizes the features of dance forms and dances.
We have tons more books you can browse on our Physical Education and Health Education section of our website, and most have Google previews, as well as excerpts available online. Presented by Don Disney, a local, state, and nationally recognized leader and administrator in the field of health education, physical education, fitness, and wellness. Integrating Nutrition Education into PEOn March 7th, Chuck Corbin, co-author of Fitness for Life Elementary School program, conducted a webinar on ...
Including aquatics in the definition of physical education provides schools with the option of including swimming in the curriculum for students with disabilities (figure 1.5) and gives families the right to access school swimming programs in which children without disabilities are granted instruction. While the law attempts to level the playing field for persons with disabilities, providing them with equal accessibility to (in our case) aquatics programs, what is reasonable may differ from ...
The ability to initially attend to a task and then maintain attention to complete it greatly improves the chances of learning the task. Provide kitchen timers to help the participant visualize how much time he has spent on a task. Strive to increase the participant’s ability to follow multitask directions, time spent on task, and quality of aquatic skills; work to decrease impulsive behaviors.
Players continue to keep the shuttlecock aloft by striking it with their hands and passing it to other players in a random pattern. Players must hit the shuttlecock up, rather than laterally, so that it can be easily hit by the next player. Players may strike the shuttlecock around the circle in a random pattern and call out the name of the next player to hit the shuttlecock.
Skyros players use passing skills similar to basketball to move the ball down the field to score a goal. Any player who catches the ball in the goal area scores a point for the team. After a team scores a goal, possession of the ball goes to the other team.
