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Practical Guide to Teaching Dance in Secondary Schools for KS 3 Dance and PE Teachers

A Practical Guide to Teaching Dance is an exciting and unique user-friendly resource that provides inspiration when you are teaching children dance.

What does it contain?

Comprehensive schemes of work and nine tried and tested units to help you prepare dance lesson plans and deliver high-quality dance activities. Complete with tasks for you and your pupils, and supported by the DVD, this resource adds to your skills and helps you deliver dance in PE.

Teacher notes found throughout the resource will help you to recognise features of good practice in dance teaching.

The accompanying DVD includes:

• video extracts of phrases of movement for you and your pupils to observe
• worksheets for your pupils to complete
• teacher prompt sheets with guidance on the tasks
• suggestions for music to accompany your lessons
• list of useful references and contacts for you to delve into for further inspiration
• overview of the scheme expectations.

Using this resource will ensure that you challenge your pupils, and that their dance in PE is progressive and, most importantly, enjoyable!

Endorsed by the National Dance Teachers Association (NDTA).

• Introduction

• Dance in the Curriculum
• Maximising Opportunities
• Recognising High-quality Dance Performance at Key Stage 3
• Recognising High-quality Composition at Key Stage 3
• Recognising High-quality Appreciation at Key Stage 3
• The Scheme of Work

• Unit 1: Cartoon Capers (Year 7)
• Unit 2: Bollywood (Year 7)
• Unit 3: Cog (Year 7)
• Unit 4: Guernica (Year 8)
• Unit 5: Urban (Year 8)
• Unit 6: Coliseum (Year 8)
• Unit 7: Grease Monkey (Year 9)
• Unit 8: My Name is Cocaine (Year 9)
• Unit 9: Cyber (Year 9)

• Warming Up in Dance
• Movement Analysis: Action, Space, Dynamic and Relationships

• Glossary
• User Notes for DVD

Lucy Pocknell is an Advanced Skills Teacher in Dance at Davison High School, Worthing where she teaches at Key Stage 3, GCSE and AS level. She works closely with Chelsea School, University of Brighton as an initial teacher training mentor and guest lecturer. She is an executive member of the National Dance Teachers Association and an AQA moderator for GCSE Dance. In partnership with the local advisory service, she provides continuing professional development for primary and secondary schools in the Sussex area. In recent years she has set up workshops for gifted and talented pupils in year 9 and established a GCSE teachers' support group. She is well known locally and nationally for excellence in choreography and receives numerous invitations to share her work.

Fiona Smith is Principal Lecturer at Chelsea School, University of Brighton where she is currently Programme Leader for Physical Education & Dance. Before joining the university she worked as a dance artist in education and was a teacher of dance at various secondary schools. Fiona is an executive member of the National Dance Teachers Association. Over the years has led numerous in-service courses for both new and experienced teachers on many aspects of dance, spanning Key Stage 3 through to examination work. She has a reputation for delivering high quality teacher training which is challenging yet, accessible and enjoyable. She has a particular interest in the teaching of dance composition and raising the profile and status of dance for boys. She is Director of the all-male KICK-START Dance Company.