How Dancing Impacts Students’ Academic Performance
Last week, I experimented with activities with students that included dancing. Usually, I start my class session with the recap from the previous session, and for that, I use PowerPoint and animated games and review videos. The use of tech and animations in lesson activities is one of my strengths, as I use them heavily in my classrooms, from animated maps to the 3d paper model of the globe. However, my students now easily predict that they will witness or experience new animation or related activity. Therefore, I wanted to experiment with something I am not mastered, and then I started planning a tech-free starter activity. This time students need to perform the recap task in the dance move. I divided my class into five small groups and gave each group two tasks (questions) from the previous lesson. Each group had 3 minutes to decide and 3 minutes to produce the answer in a particular dance move(s). The experiment was a success, as students participated and enjoyed the activity, and throughout the lesson, they were active and participative. On this day, I reflected what makes them so much active during the session? Was it the change in the traditional lesson plan or the dancing? Continue reading “How Dancing Impacts Students’ Academic Performance”
