July 10 - 14, 2023
In-Person
DEL Dance for Early Childhood
Time: 10am - 3pm EDT
Pricing: $540 until June 19 / $625 after
Location: In-person at the 92nd Street Y (NYC)
Instructors:
Deborah Damast, MA and and Erin Lally, MA, with guests Godfrey Muwulya, Daria Fitzgerald, and Milteri Tucker
DEL’s Dance for Early Childhood Curriculum encourages learning through play, providing a stimulating, multi-sensory, and nurturing community for diverse young learners to discover their innate movement capacity.
Participants in this course will gain experience in creating developmentally appropriate dance lessons and activities for children ages 3-7 years old. Interactive and participatory, this course will cover the following topics: developmentally appropriate lessons and content for early childhood, developmental patterns and the sensory system, games and short activities, basics of early childhood dance lesson planning, applied LMA vocabulary as a springboard for dance learning and lesson plan organization, strategies for effective teaching, working with children with disabilities, teaching children online, using video prompts, and collaborative lesson planning with peers.
Must register by Wednesday, July 5, 2023.