Teaching children dance / Susan Flynn, [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. A framework for teaching children's dance -- Understanding the importance of teaching children's dance -- Presenting essential content for children's dance -- Designing a dance program -- Creating a dance education setting -- Making teaching effective -- Assessing children's learning in dance -- Including all children in dance -- Part II. Learning experiences -- Learning experiences for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade -- Learning experiences for third through eighth grades -- Learning experiences in popular, fitness, and social dances -- Learning experiences in folk and cultural dances.

"Undergraduate textbook for education, dance, and physical education teaching majors that prepares them to teach dance to children from grades K-12. Includes pedagogy, curriculum and lesson planning, rationale for dance education teaching and best practices, and many learning experiences that teach children creative dance, popular and social dances, fitness dances, and folk and cultural dances"-- Provided by publisher.

"Teaching Children Dance, Fourth Edition, contains learning experiences for physical education, dance, and classroom settings and is geared toward K-12 students of all ability levels. The text is organized in two parts, with part I's seven chapters providing the foundation for developing dance learning experiences and offering ideas for planning a yearlong program, a unit, or a single lesson. Part II contains two chapters of creative dance learning experiences and two chapters of choreographed learning experiences. Each learning experience includes learning outcomes; ideas for the introduction, development, and culminating dance; variations and adaptations; and assessment suggestions that are directly linked to each outcome"-- Back cover.