Teaching Assessment

Assessments: Types

  • Informal - verbal acknowledgment (formative - questions; summative - chat with instructor)
  • Formal - grades, reflection of what you have learned (formative - immediate quiz; summative - exam)
    • summative - sums up learning that has already happened like tests
    • formative - as it is forming, verifying if learning is happening
  • Point indicator - GPA
  • Percentage - %
  • Letter evaluation by teacher or yourself
  • Self-evaluation

BEST R - Body, Energy, Space, Time, Relationship

Lessons with Elements of Dance - 

Lesson Plan:

  • Who am I teaching: 3rd grade
  • Class demographics: 20-25 students; 3 to 5 are more advanced in dance
  • Title: Ballet
  • Subunit: Barré
  • Component: Movement Skills and Underlying Principles
  • Objectives: Demonstrates how various body parts lead an action, symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes, even and uneven rhythms, understanding of meter in movement, knows dance steps and positions
  • Competency: using five different locomotor movements and at least two non-locomotor movements the student can create an improvisation based on a personal experience and perform it for his/her classmates. 
  • Activity: basic barré combinations 
  • Learning Objectives: learning basic positions and movements and combining them into combinations
  • Assessment: informal (making corrections/complements/validation)

Activity that will be taught: 

  1. Basic warm-up/stretch
  2. First through sixth position
  3. Termiology - pilé/tondué/etc.
  4. Teach small movements
  5. Teach small combinations
  6. Assessment: how do you feel and how they are doing

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