Cancelled
It is with regret that this course has had to be withdrawn.
Return to the previous page for details about the Graduate Diploma/Masters in Dance

Primary Teachers Summer Course
6th – 10th July 2009
University of Limerick
Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences

Dancing to Learn: Learning to Dance
Resources for Teaching, Learning in and Assessing Dance

Department of Education approved (course number 320)
Total cost €120 (€100 before 12th June)

This 5-day course for Primary School Teachers will run from 9.00 to 16.30 each day. It is designed to give you an intensive experience in dance education, to increase your abilities and confidence in setting long and short-term goals for dance in your school and help you to plan, deliver and assess a dance curriculum with your classes.

The course will be a mixture of practical dance workshops with theory back up, discussions, and individual time with the tutors.  It will:

• Develop practical skills and ideas for planning, delivering and assessing the dance strand.
• Apply dance ideas and skills to develop artistic and aesthetic awareness and understanding.
• Explore a range of teaching methods that will enable you to:

              - stimulate children’s imagination in dance
              - improve children’s physical abilities
              - provide for different abilities in the lesson
              - help manage children’s behaviour
              - encourage the development of social skills
              - promote curriculum integration

• Explore ways to integrate assessment tasks into the lesson content.
• Examine and evaluate ready made dance resources and ICT packages (CD ROM in particular)

By the end of the week you will leave the course with a tailor -made resource pack to help you teach dance to your class.

Tutor: Brigitte Moody is currently acting Director of the Graduate Diploma /MA in Dance at the University of Limerick and has taught Dance Education on that course for a number of years. For 25 years in education her contribution has been to undergraduate, post graduate, initial teacher training, In-Service and Continued Professional Development in the UK and Ireland. She has lectured in the UK at De Montfort University, University of Birmingham and Leeds University Her specialist area is Educational Dance and she has tutored students for primary teaching practice and post primary Physical Education. Her current research explores the kinds of knowledge developed (practically and theoretically) through participation in and learning through dance.

For further information on this course please contact:
Brigitte Moody, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of LImerick - T: 061 202807 / E: brigitte.moody@ul.ie or
Please click here to download an Application form

Also see the Department of Education Summer Courses Brochure