Brenda Mccrutchen's Teaching Dance As A Career
Voluntourism can be considered one of the most honorable ways to spend time exploring and giving back. As a dancer, it is an important career choice to have the experience of a trip such as this one not only to improve my credentials as a young aspiring artist, but also to allow me the unique opportunity to spread the love and joy that dance can bring to any community. Rob Horowitz, Columbia University Teachers College’s associate director of the Center for Arts Education Research, said “[Dance] is incredibly effective in terms of social-emotional development and in terms of being able to incorporate kids from different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different social backgrounds and have them do something common,” (Yap Cleo). Having the
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In a publication titled “Teaching Dance as Art in Education”, Miss. Brenda McCrutchen explains “All of the arts are vital, complex subjects worth serious attention in education” (McCrutchen, 3). Dance is such a unique method of learning that can be so vital to any child’s creative, artistic, and social development. Dance teaches the student not only about the technique and important health benefits to help stay active, but it also forces the students to learn how to better interact with one another. In life with any job, one may not like the people you work with, but you have to learn to get over that and be able to get the project finished, and dance can help teach that. Dance involves trust and cooperation, which is such an important element for young children to learn to be able to work well with others (Yap Cleo). Dance can be such an amazing way to get students to be excited about learning as well. Miss. Elsa explained on the Go Abroad webpage that during her experiences while teaching in the Philippines, the dance lessons she taught started out very basic, and although the kids seemed a bit giggly about the movements, they were “very responsive” and “eager to learn” (T. Elsa). To me this simply helps to prove that dance can be such an important art form for all students to learn. It is a beautiful way of expressionism and creativity that so many adults do not understand the value it can be for children, especially children in impoverished areas such as communities in the Republic of
In a publication titled “Teaching Dance as Art in Education”, Miss. Brenda McCrutchen explains “All of the arts are vital, complex subjects worth serious attention in education” (McCrutchen, 3). Dance is such a unique method of learning that can be so vital to any child’s creative, artistic, and social development. Dance teaches the student not only about the technique and important health benefits to help stay active, but it also forces the students to learn how to better interact with one another. In life with any job, one may not like the people you work with, but you have to learn to get over that and be able to get the project finished, and dance can help teach that. Dance involves trust and cooperation, which is such an important element for young children to learn to be able to work well with others (Yap Cleo). Dance can be such an amazing way to get students to be excited about learning as well. Miss. Elsa explained on the Go Abroad webpage that during her experiences while teaching in the Philippines, the dance lessons she taught started out very basic, and although the kids seemed a bit giggly about the movements, they were “very responsive” and “eager to learn” (T. Elsa). To me this simply helps to prove that dance can be such an important art form for all students to learn. It is a beautiful way of expressionism and creativity that so many adults do not understand the value it can be for children, especially children in impoverished areas such as communities in the Republic of