In all honestly I grew up not being the biggest dancer in the world, and I tend to stand to the side rather than get in the middle of a dance, but I really like the idea of using it in the classroom. Probably the main reason for this is because last year I went to a small lecture where a man taught a group of students that were interested in becoming elementary about dance in the classroom and how essential it was. It was really amazing because he applied it to math, something I had never ever thought of doing before. Additionally he noted that students learn best when they are moving, and that when you are learning about something exciting to you, you want to move around, but usually you are confined to a chair and a desk, and that this hinders learning more then helps it.
Because of this prior knowledge I was really excited to review what I had learned as well as a few more things. The brain dance in particular was really awesome as I hadn't seen it before. AdditionallyI hadn't really thought about connecting dance to anything other than math, so the Jewish dance was really awesome, connecting it to social studies made a lot of sense as well, and would relaly connect to the student like it wouldn't have before.
I definitely think that the more experience you have with dance the more you understand how important it is to learning, and an individuals general happiness and well-being. Sometimes particularly for me its easy to forget how important it is when its not your focus. So I think its really great that people with a focus in dance are continually trying to get teachers and students to have more of a focus in this area. I definitely want to try and using it in my own classroom in at least the subjects of social studies and math, I will need to think of a few more... maybe music integration for English? I am not sure yet, but will definitely keep thinking about it.
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