Susan Griss, MA a dancer, educator, and curriculum consultant, is the author of Minds in Motion: A Kinesthetic Approach to Teaching Elementary Curriculum. She is on the faculty of Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, and she is co-director of the Arts and Curriculum Institute, part of Concerted Effort which works in the NY State capital region. Susan has been teaching creative movement to children in public schools for over 20 years. Ms. Griss has an MA in dance and choreography from New York University and a BA from Smith College.
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Creative Movement in the Early Childhood Curriculum
Focus on: Preschool-Grade 3
Course Number: TEED561N
Children love to move! This participatory course demonstrates engaging strategies that can integrate movement — children’s natural language — into the early childhood curriculum in schools and other settings. Using scarves, songs, music, and children’s literature, we will explore how kinesthetic teaching techniques provide a springboard for the development of body and group awareness, spatial and numerical concepts, language and pre-reading skills. Creative movement activities can ease transitions and classroom management issues as they heighten self esteem, nurture creativity, and build community in the classroom.
April 5 and 6
Friday, 4:45 – 9:15 pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 5 pm
1 CEU $405 / 1 credit $1,295
Materials fee $5
Registration Deadline 3/29