NAfME Webinar: Sequencing Folk Dance Skills for All Students

Successful folk dancing can teach a lot of skills but doesn’t magically happen in one lesson. This webinar will help teachers understand how to sequence folk dance skills from kindergarten to upper elementary, including strategies for including special needs students. Learning objectives include how to explicitly teach partner skills, how to introduce locomotor and non-locomotor movement in shared space, how to build teamwork and social-emotional skills no matter the age, and how to modify dances for different populations including students with little to no dance experience. We will use music of many different cultures to scaffold teaching skills while learning about music and movement from around the world. There will also be information on how to incorporate popular music and student-created dances. Folk dancing can teach so many musical and social skills, and this webinar will demonstrate how to deliberately teach skills so that all students can be included in the fun!