This professional learning program will introduce hip hop dance into the classroom space as a tool to explore thematic content and assess student understanding.

Educators will experience hip hop dance as an opportunity to have fun, reflect, discuss, and analyze creative teaching strategies. Activities such as the story circle exercise and choreography created from thematic content will support self and social awareness. The dance-based activities are designed to offer opportunities for educators to employ hip hop dance as a tool for activating shared experiences that foster self-awareness and collaborative relationships.

Recommended Participants

• Teachers
• Arts Specialists

Learning Intentions

Educators will:

• Experience hip hop dance warmup and basic choreographic phrases.
• Co-create choreography in breakout groups.
• Participate in non-movement activities will include pedagogical discussion and a “Story Circle” exercise (a tool designed to help communities understand their collective feelings and decide upon an artistic theme).
• Learn how to assess (and encourage students to self-assess) the artistic process, as well as the quality of movement and choreography.

YA Connections

NJSLS-VPA:

• Artistic Process
• Creating
• Anchor Standard 1: Conceptualizing & Generating Ideas

NJSLS-VPA:

• Artistic Process
• Responding
• Anchor Standard 7: Perceiving and Analyzing Products
• Social Emotional Learning

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

• Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

When you pair this program with Hip Hop Fundamental’s workshop or assembly, they provide teachers with the in-classroom support implementing creative teaching practices, what they have learned into practice.