I have been teaching Performing Arts for over 10 years and I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with you.
Most recently I was teaching in Bangkok, prior to this I was The Director of Theatrical Productions in Amman, Jordan for 2 years. Before this I was Head of Dance in a school in the UK for 4 years.
I hope you find my resources helpful and if you do please leave a review. There are a mixture of Dance, Healthy living and PSHE resources for a range of ages and curriculum.
I have been teaching Performing Arts for over 10 years and I have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with you.
Most recently I was teaching in Bangkok, prior to this I was The Director of Theatrical Productions in Amman, Jordan for 2 years. Before this I was Head of Dance in a school in the UK for 4 years.
I hope you find my resources helpful and if you do please leave a review. There are a mixture of Dance, Healthy living and PSHE resources for a range of ages and curriculum.
Subject: Dance A Level
Area: Writing essays
One area that students struggle with in A Level dance is essay writing. In this pack you will find a few hand outs that have helped my students understand the structure of their essays. It includes a resource on:
The “isms” meaning romanticism, classicism , modernism, post modernism. This will allow your students to connect context to content when writing about key works.
Structuring your dance analysis: focus on the literary skills required for good essay writing
Analysis reminder sheet (simple version)
Peer marking assessment sheet: this is great for students as it allows them to mark each others essays by breaking them down into component parts.
SUBJECT: Dance KS2/ 3
In this pack you will find 3 resources:
SOW suitable for KS2 and 3 dance (year 6/7) based on the idea of Heroes and Villains. This is a great scheme for keeping boys engages and easily adapted to suit in person and online teaching.
Two full lesson PPT: Describing a dance idea from a stimulus (all theory/ written) and then creating a solo motif and developing it. If you are using flipgrid or google classroom these can be filmed by the students and sent to you.
In this bundle you will find several resources that mix practical and theory for KS3.
Online written activity for critical appreciation (you choose the work to watch, so can be used multiple times)
A booklet of non practical participant tasks - I created this for injured students and with SEN students in mind that struggled to access the practical work. The tasks allow students to meet your learning objectives and use the language of dance to write about your lesson.
The KS3 written task in a KS3 friendly GCSE style exam. You can use the whole thing or parts for cover work or classwork
“Improving elevation” a lesson written for KS4 when my students were struggling to really get off the floor when they jumped
Kinesphere lesson: single lesson that can be taught online or in person
Creating a solo: two lessons that can be taught online or in person
Flamenco: 3 lessons introducing this style to KS3, the first two of which are teachable online.
If you find these to be as useful as I have in using them with my students, do leave a review.
Attached is an end of year written test for KS3 dance in the style of the GCSE Dance paper. Feel free to use what is useful to you from it. I have done this with year 7-9 as an end of year test. But you could easily use this for Online lessons.
This ppt follows on from “Analysis of choreographic content - Artificial Things” and continues to break down the choreographic devices, relationships and key movement phrases in the focus sections (Dave and Laura’s Duet, Tumbling and Gliding).
This resources is designed for students to edit together so I have used it in google slides to achieve this, however you can adapt this should that not be an option for you. The collaborative nature of the lesson allows for students to explore the set work as a team in order to build a response to 6/12 mark questions.
This lesson is designed for the non-specialist, however if you have any questions prior to delivery please do not hesitate to contact me:
ceriseve@hotmail.co.uk
Feel free to add in or remove tasks. This lesson is designed for students to do a lot of the discovery for themselves with reading tasks and quick search and discussion tasks.
This may take more than one lesson so split it up or simply miss out some slides and tasks to suit your students
Encourage your students to be open in their discussion but respectful and kind. Depending on your class you may need to cover some ground rules on this kind of discussion before having them.
It is not designed for any particular curricula, rather provides the most up to date information on the topic as of February 2023
Topics and tasks:
Starter research task to get students finding the most unique facts they can on this topic. You will need to use “jamboard” or any other method of collating their ideas. Post-it notes on the white white board will achieve the same goal
Discussion on the difference between perimenopause and menopause
Symptoms of menopause leading to a discussion about impact of this on women in the workplace
Facts on “why is this important to discuss” with focus on the gender health gap
Treatment: HRT and ERT. What it is and what it is not. 9 min video “Why women are refused HRT”
Student reading task (1) on why its important for males to also be informed on this topic followed by a discussion prompting empathy and kindness
Student reading task (2) about the gender equality gap in research surrounding menopause
Final quiz (provided by Rochester University)
Sources slide should you want to read further on the topic
I have created a reusable resource that requires only you to choose a dance work to watch. It asks GCSE style questions aimed at KS3. All your students need are a link to watch any work you choose and this resource.
This pack contains a 6 week SOW plan exploring African style movement and choreography skills. In addition is a peer assessment resource and a self review module sheet for the end of the unit. Students will explore the basics of this style and create duets and group dances. Youtube links are provided so even a dance teacher less confident with this style can still deliver this.
This is three lessons in 1 ppt. It is usable for online learners and contains links to resources they will need. You will need to also set up FLIPGRID in order to see their videos (or any other ways - google classroom, teams etc)
It covers the basics of Flamenco and an introduction to its origins. Students will also create their own 8 count “Zapeteado” rhythm. You can have them do this as solos or in pairs.
The 3rd lesson is working in pairs to create duets using mirroring and unsion.
This is single lesson on improving your jumping in dance. It can be used for both BTEC Performing arts dance and GCSE Dance
I created this because my students were struggling to really “get off the floor” so we spent one lesson really focused on it.
Subject: A level Dance (AQA)
Also suitable for: BTEC level 2 and 3 with adaptations
This lesson can be used to teach either in person or online. It is double lesson and can be extended to 3 lessons if you need more time.
Students are guided to explore the style and create their own Robbins motif and then evaluate another persons.
This is an easy to follow lesson and can be included in your A Level SOW on the optional area of study - Jazz
I have also included a resource on major jazz contributors in for reference.
Subject: A Level Dance
Area: Essay style questions
In this bundle you will find 12 essay style questions mark sheets for your students. I asked my students to always attach the sheet to the front of their work.
It allows you to mark essays consistently and provided feedback linked to the criteria.
Attached is two full lessons for online learning KS3 Dance.
Lesson 1: using a stimulus to describe a dance idea and 3 motif ideas
Lesson 2: Creating these motifs and developing Actions, Space and Dynamics
At the end of the ppt are suggestions to take this into a full 6 week lesson SOW
SUBJECT: Dance KS2 or 3
Suitable for PE lessons on Dance
This single lesson is a great way to explore the concept of “kinesphere” in dance
Suitable for year 6 and 7 students will explore space to create their own motifs.
Teacher must create for themself an 8 count phrases to teach as part of the lesson making use of a range of small and large actions for students to develop. It should be simple enough to pick up quickly
Subject: Teacher Training CPD
Topic: Differentiation for high attainers
Quite often we are very clear on how to differentiate for our lower attainers but we forget that this strategy should also be used for “stretch and challenge”
This pack contains an hours CPD training on differentiation for higher attainers. I delivered this at my school for my department when it was a key focus for our school development plan and it went down really well - and I enjoyed delivering it, I hope you do too.
Included:
PPT for training session
Facilitator guide
Resource for participants
Command words (GCSE)
Task design resource
Not included:
You will also need the marks scheme for your subject area
Subject: Dance
Topic: Booklet for non- participant/ SEN student to access the class
I designed this PPT booklet for a SEN student that struggled to access the class and would sometimes remove himself from practical learning. This resource was a great way for him to show his understanding and still participate. We used it to allow him the opiton of practical or theory each lesson and it worked really well. I hope you can also use it.
Suitable for A level Dance Students or Btec Level 3 Dance students studying Jerome Robbins.
Bundle includes 3 of my resources also sold separately:
Robbins - Comparison of professional works
Robbins - Stylistic Features
West Side Story - Character details
This is the introduction lesson to my Capoeira scheme of work. In this lesson students will learn the basic actions (images and video linked in resource). Please note it is best that you learn these actions yourself prior to delivering the class so you can demonstrate them. Students then create their own short sequence as a soloist and then develop this in pairs. At the end of the lesson students watch an excerpt from A Linha Curva to reflect on how Itziki Galili incorporated this in his work (Links to GCSE).
The full scheme of work and resources are available in my shop should you like this lesson.
This free resource is the first of three lesson workshops exploring how Jerome Robbins builds tension and tells stories through dance. In this lesson students can learn some stylised actions (videos provided) and develop a short group sequence as “The Jets”.
This lesson was written for year 8 but can be adapted for older and younger dancers. The final task can also be extended into a second lesson of refining their work ready to perform it.
Look out for the next two lessons if you enjoyed this one!