Learn how to create class content that helps your students learn the dance in a much more profound way while, at the same time, get a lot of fun vocabulary to use on the dance floor.
The concept is called CONTRASTING.
If you implement it well, your students get that sense of mastery early on. This can lead to passion and identity creation. The most important outcome is that your students don’t get easily distracted away from the dance because they already formed a deeper connection with it early on.
One simple approach to contrasting is this: Pick any move that contains something you find important. Let’s call that your structure move. Then from this structure move as the starting point, create a new move that you can call contrast 1. This move should only partially be different from the structure move.
Imagine taking your structure move and splitting it into a beginning, middle and end. To create your contrast move, change one of these parts of your structure move.
It is when a person NEED to make an active decision and figure out the relationship between two near dots where bridges can be built. Here, I want to share an important lesson I got from Ron: A teacher can not draw a bridge for the student. The teacher can only choose the material in such a way that a student is “confronted” by the need to form bridges.
Each contrast need to have validity from the perspective of the student, meaning each version need to feel as equally important and motivating for your students or they’ll just discard one of them.
They should be almost the same but still different so that your student actually need to make a decision.
You need to contrast the right place of the movement to emphasize the concept you are working on.
Doing this right really takes a lot of creativity and ingenuity, so, when you find one, celebrate!
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