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Early Childhood Conference2019

“Beyond the Classroom: T aking LearningOutdoors”

Concurrent Workshop: Traditional and Celebratory Dance

• Impact of AISSProgramme
• Sustainability in application of arts inthe

curriculum

Presenter Name: Jervis Quek and Janelle Foo Centre Name: Carpe Diem Springs Pte Ltd Centre Code: PT8799

• Overview of the focus area on selected art form:

1) T eachers lack basic dance skills and knowledge of cultural dances. 2) Children have little exposure to culturaldances. 3) Allow children to explore different waysof learning local culture

• Theme for T

erm 4: Our Traditions and Cultures- funand meaningful.

• Especially appealing for kinesthetic learners.

4) Therefore, genre of dance chosen: ‘Traditional and CelebratoryDance’.

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Pre-School Artist-in-School Scheme(AISS)

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Purpose ofAISS:

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1) For teachers to deepen their knowledge and enhance skills in cultural dance through working with professional art practitioners. 2) T

• build confidence and continue to develop teacher’s professional skills in delivering music and

movement lesson integrating cultural dances in the dailycurriculum. 3) T

• create authentic, purposeful yet fun learning opportunities for the children while meeting their

developmental goals. 4) For children to simply appreciate and enjoy their local culture through cultural dances.

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Benefits of theprogramme:

T eachers

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eachers developed skills and knowledge through working with the artist

• Learnt to integrate these skills and knowledge into theirlesson plans
• Made learning fun and yet achieving intended learningobjectives.

T eachers pre-programme planning with theartists.

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Benefits of theprogramme:

T eachers

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eachersshared the skills and knowledge with the other colleagues in the centre.

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eachers actively shared and reviewed all the dance skills and knowledge with oneanother.

• Centre become more vibrant as teachers worked together.
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eachersbetter equipped to cater to the learning needs children, especially kinesthetic learners.

T eachers training with theartist.

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Benefits of theprogramme:

Children

• Children can respond and represent their thoughts and feelings through dance, in ways of Bruner (1996) three models of representation in

cognitive development of children:

• Enactive (action)
• Iconic(imaged)
• Symbolic(language)
• We recognise children as curious and active learners
• Through dance, provided them with opportunities to understand themselves and giving them the ability to construct their own knowledge and

encourage creative thinking.

Children’s training with the artists andteachers.

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Impact of AISS programme(ECDA Conference)

The children performing at the Early Childhood Conference 2018.

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Impact of AISS programme (Annual Year End Concert2018)

The K1 and K2 children’sperformances.

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Sustainability of theprogramme

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• Application of Arts to Children

✓ Childrenappreciateand recognise various traditional instruments (e.g.Kompang, Gendang, Tableetc.). ✓ Children enjoy listening to a variety of traditional Malay and Indian songs during morning assemblies/ festive celebrations/ music and movement lesson etc.

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Sustainability of theprogramme

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• Application of Arts toTeachers

✓ Lessonplanning ✓ Applicationof bettertechniquesof singing anddancemovesof culturaltunes ✓ BetterFacilitationof Malay andIndiansongs forthechildren: ➢ Use of appropriate vocabulary to help children describe their thoughts and feelings about culturaldance

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Sustainability of theprogramme

• ApplicationofArtsIn theCentre

Children performing the Malayand Indian dances during Racial harmony day celebration.

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Sustainability of the programme

• How did the programme complement to the centre’s curriculum?

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✓ Carpe Diem brand promise: to discover and develop their innate ability to maximize their potential so that they become confident social-learners: ➢ In this case, their gift and potential for cultural dance. ✓ Extension of children’s learning: ➢ Children’s language and literacy skills ➢ Motor skills development ➢ Interpersonal skills: confidence in self ➢ Intrapersonal skills: working as a team for performance ✓ Appreciation for local arts which is tied in to one of our themes in Term 4 (Our traditions and customs). ✓ Teachers can integrate and facilitate learning that is authentic, meaningful and fun.