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One way that I would use dance in my future classroom is to pair it with a lesson on force and inertia. Having the students get together in pairs, using modern dance to observe reactions to force. Another way would be to have students get into small groups with one person teaching a dance move to the rest, each student practice and then identify as many of the muscles used to do the dance, taking turns.
-KM

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One way I would incorporate dance in my classroom is by teaching students a brain break dance. Instead of using go noodle I want to create a dance that is special to our classroom something that is unique to us. The brain break could be used when we come in from recess and the students can’t sit still. Or I would do the dance first thing in the morning so that students can forget about what happened before they came to school and dance it off. Another way I would incorporate dance is when we are learning about different cultures I would bring in music from that culture and country and have students dance to it. I would also show them cultural dances for example hula, or salsa, and square dancing to show my students the different ways people dance.
NS

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There is many different ways I would incorporate dance into my future classroom. I would incorporate dance by allowing students to express themselves. Also, I would use dance to help the students understands different academic lessons better. For example, if the students are learning about the wealth in their classrooms. I would incorporate a dance that’s
teaches the students about the different types of weather.
-K.C

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First I will use dance as a break to help my students get their wiggles out but still keep it educational by making sure the song or exercise they are doing has a relevant theme.

Second, with older students, I will incorporate dance when learning about different cultures and about folk tales. -RM

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I would use dance in order to have my students learn new concepts. For example, when learning about the planets I could have the students hold photos of different parts of the solar system, and then through dance show them how they move.

Secondly, I would take a few minutes after recess/lunch for the students to dance and get their wiggles out. This would allow students to get out their energy and start to focus.

MP

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One way I would incorporate dance in my classroom is by learning cultural dances around the world. For example bachata, cumbia, samba, and etc. I will find routines that are easy and fun at the same time, so my students don't get overwhelmed or frustrated.

Another way I will incorporate dance is before I start teaching, I will let them free dance. Free dance will be a way that they can express themselves. As well as let all their energy out, and or so they can wake up and be ready to learn. The point of free dance is to help them in any way possible, so they can learn and be on task.
-J.B

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In my future classroom, there are a number of ways in which I will incorporate dance. More specifically, I will use dance as a type of “brain break activity” for the students in my classroom. Brain breaks are two to five minute activities which get students up and moving in the classroom. Using dance as a brain break will help my students to get the blood flowing, release energy, and refocus for learning. Throughout the school day, students spend a large amount of time sitting and dance is the perfect way to get them up and moving, and keep them engaged in the material.

Another way I will incorporate dance into my future classroom is through subject integration. Dance and movement help students retain information and build deeper memory pathways within the brain. For this reason, I plan on including dance in the core subject matter.
~KK

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I can't go a day with out dancing, so I know I will for sure have some kind of good morning, "Get the wiggles out" Dance. Something that will definitely be fun and spark laughter. I would also love to play music from around the world, and teach my students the special dances incorporated with that culture. For instance, If we are learning about Ireland, than I could show them what a jig or reel is, while listening to The Bothy Band (A well known Irish band).
T.S.

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One way I would incorporate dance in my future classroom is by using the activity as a "brain break." Students sit a lot throughout the day so as a transition I would have the students up and moving. I observed a 5th grade teacher last year and she used this method and it worked very well for the students. She would just put on videos of Just Dance and the students loved it! By seeing how excited the students were, I believe it is important to incorporate some kind of dance in the day.
Another way I'd like to incorporate dance into my future classroom is for when the students are learning about geography and different countries. I believe learning about different heritages and cultures would be very fun if the students learned about and practiced their dances as well.

SDC

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One way I would incorporate dance into my classroom is through story time.  For example, I would play music that corresponds to the tone of the story and have the students listen and dance to the music during a break from reading.  Another way I would incorporate dance into the classroom is by using songs and movements to learn a lesson such as counting.  I could find a song that counts forwards and backwards and the students could move in a way that corresponds to the way they are counting.

M.Maize

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Dance is a wonderful way to engage students in the classroom, as most young children are kinesthetic learners. I could use dance to help teach concepts- like contour. I could have the students create and high movements and low movements, and then have them respond to what they hear when I play music for them. Or, Dance could be used in a rhythmn game to teach long and short sounds, like the seven step dance that was taught in class.
-H.B.

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I will use dance in the classroom as a method to keep the students focused and awake. When students are not moving for long periods of time they can begin to look for distractions and feel tired. I will also use dance in the classroom to allow students to express themselves creatively as well as develop and enhance their motor skills. They can later apply the skills they learn when they memorize steps and routines to other areas in there life. Dance is a great way to keep students engaged and active which unfortunately is something that is often overlooked in schools.

C.K

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I will use dance in my classroom to help students learn about a certain place or to get them up and active. I could show them different places in the world and have them learn about the culture and I could show them their dancing style after, like folk dancing. Dancing is also a great way to get them up and active. After a long lesson or if they are sitting their tired, I could get them up and dancing and engaged.

- C.S.S

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Dancing is a good way to get students active and motivated to participate in class. One of the teachers I observed would incorporate dance in the classroom by starting every transition with a musical dance. The students would come into class after break or lunch and would come into class and begin their dance. It helps with students that are overly-energetic and get them prepared to focus in class. I would use the same method with my students because it worked and the students enjoyed the activity. Another way I would use dance in my future classroom is when we are learning about different cultures I would incorporate a dance from that region. We could learn about the dance and try performing it in the class which will help with learning about the culture. These are two different ways I would use dance in my classroom.
C.C

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There's definitely quite a few ways I could use dance in my future classroom. For example, dance is helpful for teaching students to keep a steady beat. Doing something like dancing in time to certain song with locomotive and non-locomotive motion is a good way to get the students internalizing steady beat in different parts of their body. I think dance can also be used as a way to get students to express themselves. For example, playing music and asking the students to express how it makes them feel in some way through locomotive motion. Even doing an activity similar to one we did in class where I read a card and ask them to dance to the music in a way they think represents the words on the card. All these activities would be good to get my students active and moving, and even to wake them up at the beginning of class and get them excited to be in my classroom.

K.B.

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One way that I would incorporate dance is a method of exercise and a waking up method as a few minutes into class starting. By using non-locomotive motions, I could use simple hand and leg movements to rhythmic patterns that would allow everyone to engage together. A locomotive way to do it would be a fun dance like a conga line. This leads to my other use of dance and that is to teach musical rhythms. Maybe I could make my students tap their feet at a certain tempo and even teach some time signatures by emphasizing a stomp to the downbeat. They can start picking up a sense of rhythm.

C.M

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The focus of dancing in my classroom will be on 2 things: Rhythm and expression.  The rhythm aspect is pretty self explanatory: they will have to demonstrate their skill of maintaining a steady beat through various dance moves; stepping side to side, clapping, tapping, etc. For expression, I will play a variety of different styles of music. Happy music, upbeat music, sad music, reflective music, and have the kids interpret the mood into dance.

ZJ

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When I think of dancing in the classroom I always think about that Hannah Montana episode where she made one of her songs as a way to study the 206 bones in an average adult body which is really cool. So I could do that with my future students as well, we could use dance as a way to memorize vocabulary words. Another way I would use dancing in the classroom would be to let my students dance to let out any energy they built up from sitting down for so long, the Wake Me, Shake Me song could also help as well.

M.Y.

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When I think of dancing in the classroom I always think about that Hannah Montana episode where she made one of her songs as a way to study the 206 bones in an average adult body which is really cool. So I could do that with my future students as well, we could use dance as a way to memorize vocabulary words. Another way I would use dancing in the classroom would be to let my students dance to let out any energy they built up from sitting down for so long, the Wake Me, Shake Me song could also help as well.

M.Y.

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One way I would include dance in my future classroom is by showing my students dances from different cultures. For example, a video we watched was of an Irish folk dance which both the teacher and students learned the choreography to. I could have a specific culture for each month and we could learn a dance from different cultures monthly. Another way I would include dance is through integrating it with another subject. I could teach my students a dance about science where my lesson would be teaching them about the weather and have them dance the way that weather moves. Such as, if i were to introduce a tornado into our weather dance I could have my students spin around or grab another partner by the hands and both spin in a circle.

J.S

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Two ways in which I might include dance in my future classroom is by using it as a way to relax and cool down after recess or lunch. When students enter the classroom after playing outside, they are usually hyper and energized. I would play some music and give them time to dance around and let out some energy so that they are ready to sit down and learn. Another way I would include dance in my future classroom is by allowing students to dance during a brain break. After a long lecture or assignment, I can give them some time to relax and dance to let out some stress. I have seen how effective these two techniques are in a first-grade classroom. The students seemed to really enjoy it and has become a part of their daily routine.

VL

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Two ways in which I might include dance in my future classroom would be to help them memorize information and also as break to get the students active and out of their seats. Similar to the activity we did with 7 steps in class, I would utilize something like that to help the students with adding or multiplying. In one of my EFE classes, my teacher every now and then would play a song the students loved and would let them dance for about 4-5 minutes. It got the students out of their seats and to take a break from what they were learning. I think it really made the classroom have a positive environment as well as make learning fun for the students.
-D.E.

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One way I might incorporate dance into my future classroom would be using it as a brain break. I feel that dance will not only wake up the students, but also get their energy going. Having brain breaks are significant for me to have in a classroom because there is no student that would want to just sit and learn a lesson for an hour straight. I would also try to make the dance relative to the lesson so that the students are not completely off track. I would also use dance as a fun activity to end the day with. There are many GoNoodle dances that students enjoy, so taking the last five minutes of the day dancing would be a great way to end class.

-R.B.

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I may incorporate dance by asking my future students to move specific body parts as I do for as long as I stop, for it’s a class activity that involves being active, out of their seats and they have fun. Some of the actions taken by I, the instructor can be but are not limited to clapping hands, stomping, touching specific parts of the body, moving specific parts of the body and/or making noises that may even represent an animal. In addition, I as the instructor can demonstrate a short/simple choreography for songs like the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” or “The Wheels on the Bus”. I can step by step demonstrate what the choreography looks like, ask that they imitate my actions and eventually as a class wok out the choreography as a class. It is a fun way of getting the students up and moving, destress them about any problems and simply have a nice/fun break from sitting and learning stationed in their seat.

-M.M
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One way I might include dance in my classroom would be as a morning routine to get my students awake and ready to learn. One dance that I could do to begin the morning would be "Wake me, Shake me" because the dance to that chant is engaging and fun. Another way I could incorporate dance would be if I were teaching body parts. I could use a dance where my students use different body parts during a dance. They might start a dance to a song by using their feet first, and then there legs, arms, etc.  Overall I think that dance is important to incorporate into a general classroom.
-F.L.

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I would use dance as a stress reliever and as a learning tool.  I have seen that dance works as a stress reliever with my four-year-old nephew. Most of the times when I say “Lets put some music and dance for a little bit” he immediately refuses to the idea of dancing. After a minute or two he starts to enjoy the music and without even noticing his mind is calmer, and his mood improves. Dancing can also be used as a learning tool, I would use it with math, history or even grammar. We could do some steps and write a song about the 51 states of the United States. We could jump and do squats following the rhythm of a catchy song. Dancing is a multi-learning tool. I love music, and love to dance. I am not a good dancer, but I believe my students will have fun and learn more while doing this with me.
-A.M.

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In my future classroom, one way I would be incorporating dance is in teaching math to my students. I would be making the first move and they would follow me. Then they would be adding an extra dance move. This would be the first move because I would be introducing the concept of addition. They would be in two circles the first circle would make the dance move and the second circle would make another move by saying the correct answer. Another way I would incorporate dance is by at the end of the day/ and when they come back from recess when is time to almost clean up or proceed to the next lesson I would let 5 minutes to have a "Random Dancing" so students can show their moves and know that they are in a safe community. Nowadays, there are so many new ways that teachers can make each class lesson fun by incorporating dance into your classroom and beneficial. And not boring just sitting on your desk the whole day.
-A.D.

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In my future classroom, one way I would incorporate dance is by illustrating a song from Youtube called, "Gummy Bear." When I notice students are tired and not participating in class, I will have the students dance to a song. The students will get up from their seats and follow the dance moves of the video. The video will be less than 5 minutes long. This is a good strategy because it gets the students moving and will wake them up so that they are ready to learn. The second way I would incorporate dance is by demonstrating a lesson on math and connecting it to dancing. For example, I would have the students gather in a circle and one student will stand in the middle of a circle. The student in the middle will be giving out problems of addition/subtraction/multiplication/division and the students on the outside will be going around the circle dancing. One way they could answer the problem is by counting their steps or by telling. There are a lot of fun ways to incorporate dance into your classroom that are beneficial and successful for your students.
-V.H

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In my future classroom one way I would be able to incorporate dance is during a brain break. In the brain break I would display a music video and encourage the students to dance. The music video will always introduce different cultures, and with the students creativity they will each come up with their own dance interpretation of the song. This activity will not be more than 4 minutes. Another fun idea I could incorporate dance in my future classroom is to have it be part of a morning routine. The routine will always be around the concept we might be learning that day. For example learning numbers, I could have the students count with me their dance steps. Learning planets, each planet have their own dance and so the students will have to mirror my dance for each planet. Some days I could even have the students help me create a dance for the subject of the day.
V G

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The first way I would incorporate dance in my special education classroom is by playing a song that I know they enjoy and do a free dance. I might put a video or do the moves so they can follow. It might help release/decrease the extra energy or hyperactive. The second way I might include dance is by integrating it with a subject that seems hard or boring to understand. Depends on what grade level I work with, I was thinking of having them form a circle and holding a big number on their hands. I would ask 2 + 2 = is / 5 x 5 = is? The student holding the correct number goes inside the circle and dance a solo. It might be or not engage that is just an idea.
C.H

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One way I would like to include dance into my classroom is by having the students take a brain break and watch these videos that the students follow the actions or dance moves they are doing. This not only gets the students moving and doing some exercise but is a fun way to let them have a break from some of the teaching. Another way I would include dance into my future classroom would be to incorporate dance into the subjects that we are learning, for example listening to a math counting song that I could project onto the white board and have the students practice their counting to 20 while exercising and following along to the dance moves that are being shown in the video.

-S.M.

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When I am a teacher I will incorporate dance in my classroom in at least two ways. The first way would be as a brain break. When the children are getting antsy and losing focus, I will have them stand up and we will do a little dance to get their energy out. Another way I will incorporate dance is during a history or science lesson that may not be that interesting. We could do dance moves and act out the lessons together. It would be a really fun way to get the children more interested in the lesson, and be more willing to learn. I cannot wait to use dance in my future classroom!
-C.S.

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One way I want to include dance in my future classroom is through free dance time. I think it is important that the students have a time and space to dance out some of the energy they have either at the beginning of class or after a break. Another way I might include dance in my classroom is through teaching another subject such as dancing