FORM AND MEANING IN CHILDRENS DANCE

EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL LESSONS

NAME :-___Kristen Hamilton_____________

DATE:-__11/19/14_______

1.How were the objectives met ?

The concepts were introduced to the students and through guided group improv as
well as discussion the concepts were met. I had the students draw different lines on
piece of note card, and from there they traveled in the pathways that they created.
As a group they followed, for a time, a pathway that I had created for them using
different texture movements, it turned into a circle but from there I was able to
guide them through using different texture ideas, as well as colors (the notecards
they had received were all different colors) those colors inspired different emotions
that they then portrayed through movement.
2.Was the material too difficult? Simple? Uninteresting? Directions
not clear? Explain
It was easy to get them moving, but through discussion I found it was hard for them
to articulate why a movement portrayed an emotion or texture. I helped to guide
them in the direction of understanding and soon they were able to explain to me
the differences between the movement and what it had to say.
3. How was the Lesson challenging to the students?
It was challenging because they have never been taught in this way. When I asked
them to move like the color of their note card they were all extremely confused. I
explained that nothing would be wrong, so long as it pertained to their color and
either how it made them feel or what it represented to them. It was also challenging
because they had to come up entirely with their own movements, while guided with
the ideas of texture and color the movement was all their own and I think it let a
few shine and caused a few others to feel uncertain.
4. What skills need additional practice?
Today they were a little distracted. The curtain on the stage was open and I think
that had something to do with it, but I would re-engaged them as soon as they
drifted.
5. What students need particular attentionskill, social, emotion,
etc.?
Today was a much better day as far as group work. Initially, it was clear that a bully
had been born and it worked in a negative way for everyone because she would
bully, be bullied in return and the cycle would continue. I did my best to keep it
under wraps, and after the first 10 minutes it stopped and everyone was able to
work together. This one girl in particular still needs help with her social skills, but
today she was working much better in an all girl group. It's something I need to
keep focusing on because I think the more than she feels like she fits somewhere

the less she will be inclined to act out and the less likely she will be to bully
because it's clear that it's a defense mechanism.