Educational Movement in Health & Wellness

Catalog description

This course helps students achieve individual competency in applying educational gymnastics, fundamental movement, educational/multicultural games and educational/creative dance to learn Laban's educational movement concepts through the use of cooperative learning, problem solving and guided discovery. Students construct developmentally appropriate interdisciplinary standards-based expressive movement experiences that show meaningful application to children's learning inclusive of children with special needs and English language learners. Content will also address health and wellness concepts central to grades PreK-4 as it relates to educational movement. Students will reflect (metacognition) upon their educational movement experiences including but not limited to individual competency, diversity, critical thinking, core subject integration and differentiating instruction. Thematic Thread(s): Transfer Thread Completion Course