Moving Hearts, Minds & Bodies through Dance Integration with Kimberli Boyd Part 1
In this interactive workshop, participants examine ways to enhance their teaching and deepen student knowledge and understanding of subject areas such as English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and more through engaging young learners through movement.
Creative movement provides an opportunity to reach all learners, particularly the kinesthetic learner, in ways that allow them to process and retain information effectively and efficiently while helping to make even the most abstract concepts more concrete. In this interactive workshop, participants examine ways to enhance their teaching and deepen student knowledge and understanding of subject areas such as English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and more through engaging young learners through movement. Explore how to involve students in active learning with Kennedy Center teaching artist, Kimberli Boyd, through a series of physical warm up and skill-building activities that support the learners’ social emotional awareness while helping them develop body awareness, focus, and creativity.
This workshop was developed in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is partially underwritten by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Committee for the Performing Arts.