By engaging students' kinesthetic intelligence, teachers can help them learn reading skills, history and social studies, science and math concepts, and English language arts. This participatory workshop will give teachers tools to use accessible, movement-based learning activities to teach curriculum addressed in State Learning Standards. Special attention will be paid to supporting the needs of children with short attention spans or diverse learning styles, through the use of creative movement activities designed to help children refocus and unlock their natural learning abilities.

2. Minds In Motion: Making The Link Between Creative Movement And Nuts And Bolts Curriculum (Language Arts And Social Studies, K-5)

"Movement is an indispensable part of learning and thinking," according to neurophysiologist Dr. Carla Hannaford. Use your students' kinesthetic intelligence to help them learn reading skills, punctuation, vocabulary, history, geography, and other aspects of language arts and social studies. This participatory workshop will train educators how to use creative movement, dance and kinesthetic activities to teach academic curriculum designated in your State Learning Standards.

3. Minds In Motion: Making The Link Between Creative Movement And Nuts And Bolts Curriculum (Math And Science, K-5)

Creative movement is a physical language that can help make math and science highly accessible to elementary school children. This workshop equips educators to use dance elements, improvisation, journeys, tableau and choreography to teach basic concepts and information. Participants will be led through actual movement lessons chosen from among the following: cycles and transformation, sound waves, body systems, patterns, fractions, multiplication, division, factors.

4. A Kinesthetic Approach to Elementary Curriculum Geared to Teaching Children with Special Needs (K-5)

Children love to move! This participatory workshop will train teachers how to use creative movement, dance and kinesthetic activities to teach diverse elementary curricular subjects as well as enhance self-expression, self-esteem, and the physical abilities of students with special needs. Teachers will be shown how to incorporate props, music and stories to engage children in creative movement. The workshop, led by a highly experienced curriculum consultant and movement specialist, displays the concept of kinesthetic learning and fits it within Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences.

5. Words That Move Us: Teaching Language Arts Kinesthetically

This workshop equips you to teach reading comprehension, creative writing, punctuation and other language arts skills using accessible, movement-based learning activities. Plug into your students’ kinesthetic intelligence. Emphasis is placed on multicultural and contemporary stories and poems. Special attention will be paid to supporting the needs of children with short attention spans or diverse learning styles through the use of transition games, learning games and creative movement activities designed to help children refocus and unlock their natural learning abilities.

6. Poetry in Motion: An Exploration of Poetry through Dance

Dance has been called “poetry in motion” because it can capture the essence of an idea or feeling through a gesture or movement phrase. In this participatory workshop, elementary school teachers will experience the interpretation of poetry through dance. Through improvisation and choreography, participants will explore the images, metaphors, mood and meaning of poetry from a variety of cultures.

7. The Dance of Numbers: Teaching Mathematics through Movement

You can use creative movement to help your students construct a concrete experience of abstract mathematical operations. This hands-on workshop equips you with simple, engaging movement and dance activities to teach the concepts of multiplication and division, to drill multiplication tables, to practice multi-step multiplication, to experience common factors, and to unlock the secret of mixed fractions through rhythm and choreography. You'll even learn an order-of-operations square dance for multi-digit multiplying!

8. Embodying Art: Entering the Visual Arts through Creative Movement (K-4)

Children love to move, yet they can often become timid with space and motion as they paint and draw. This participatory workshop will introduce art teachers to accessible movement-based teaching strategies to help children learn about color, line and form. Channel disruptive fidgeting into constructive learning that engages students and brings joy to the classroom.

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