The Moving Knowledge model integrates the fundamentals of the dance curriculum while also addressing other learning areas through physical engagement and exploration.
Boys build dynamic shapes in space
The Moving Knowledge model supports critical and creative student thinking whilst expanding personal and social capabilities as they engage in teamwork, communication and the expression of concepts and ideas. This model encourages their somatic intelligence and development as confident and involved learners as well as effective communicators & creative individuals.
In Dance, students are:
- Mathematicians
- Problem solvers
- Code breakers
- Designers
- Creatives
- Team players
- Communicators
- Decision-makers
- Critical thinkers
- Spatial scientists
- Construction Builders
- Architects
- Logistics analysts
The Moving Knowledge model is offered as a Professional Development session for all school staff and departments, and as external workshop sessions for individual staff wanting to add this skill to their bank. These sessions are held at our movement studio in Brunswick (see dates on our calendar).
The Moving Knowledge model provides teachers with the simple but effective tools & skills to create a curriculum and learning environment that is moving, experiential and that stimulates creative learning. Teachers are not expected to have any dance or drama experience or knowledge.
The Moving Knowledge model upgrades the skills of classroom teachers. It supports the implementation of The Arts into curriculum not by taking away from other studies – but by promoting learning and engagement with all subjects.
In this section…
National Curriculum
The National Australian Curriculum is requiring all Australian schools to integrate dance (movement) into the classroom curriculum. Studies reveal that our children learn more effectively through …Read More
F – Year 2
Dance in the lower Primary years’ classroom is essential. Children learn through their bodies – physically experiencing their environment and kinaesthetically understanding the world and …Read More
Years 3 – 4
By using the Moving Knowledge model of investigation and reporting, students respond, present, discuss, build, inform and interpret classroom curriculum topics using physical expression, symbolism, …Read More
Years 5 – 6
The Years 5 & 6 curriculum is transformed when students engage in the study of key learning areas through movement activities that require them to engage …Read More