Susan Hartley
Susan Hartley honors the foundation that the arts are central to teaching and learning. Collaboration, integration, engagement, challenge, and celebration are key components to a student’s successful learning experience. Susan, a 40-year veteran dance educator holds NC licensure, a BA in Dramatic
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Let's Make Your Classroom Dance!
Program Description
Workshop(s) designed specifically for the classroom teacher will explore how to turn your curriculum into movement, to dance parts of speech, poetry, geometric design,algebra, force/motion, geography, authentic folk dance, etc. and comfortably create movement that depicts visual expressions of such.
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Contact for availability for 2019-2020 school year
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A clean, open space to safely facilitate movement, wall space to hang visuals. A CD or iPod sound system, whiteboard or chart paper/easel.
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$100/hour
EDUCATION STANDARDS
R3: Analyze how and why individuals, events, ideas develop and interact (Participants develop movements relating to words, ideas, imagery, cadence, etc. and collaborate in the creation of dance phrases.)
R7: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and text, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words (Participants interpret poetry and thematic material, imagery, comprehension of various content through dance and choreography.)
1L and L2: Demonstrate the command of grammar and usage, capitalization, punctuation and spelling (Participants create accurate yet creative representations of these conventions through movement.)
MP4: Model with mathematics (Participants demonstrate counting and cardinality, geometry, and fractions within their choreography.)
NC Essential Arts Standard: C.1 CONNECTING Strand: applying knowledge of dance in relation to history, culture, heritage, other content areas, ideas, skills and life-long learning. The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas. Participants draw from assigned content areas to create movements, phrases and dance.)
SCIENCE 5.P.1: Understand force, motion and the relationship between them, 2.E.1: Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather 8.E.2: Understand the history of Earth and its life forms based on evidence of change recorded in fossil records and landforms. (Participants create choreography representing balance/counterbalance, gravity, momentum, weather, rock cycles, life cycles of plants/butterflies, solids/liquids/gases, sound waves, rotation/revolution, solar system, skeletal/muscular/nervous system, simple machines, Newton’s Laws of Motion.)
SOCIAL STUDIES 6.C.1: Explain how the behavior and practices of individuals and groups influenced societies, civilizations and regions (Participants learn and perform authentic dances from countries around the world relate to social reasoning)
Qualifications
References
Dr. Brenda Wheat Whiteman, Arts Education Coordinator, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, bwhiteman@chccs.k12.nc.us
Dr. Liz Droessler, Department of Education, Meredith College, egdroessler@meredth.edu
Shana Adams, Durham Arts Council, CAPS, sadams@durhamarts.org
Cancellation Policy
Upon notice… will reschedule