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Program Outcomes PreK-Grade 12

Dance Outcomes 

Psychomotor

  • Students will move effectively, efficiently, and creatively by integrating concepts into their skill development.
  • Students will exhibit competence in a variety of locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills performed individually and in groups.
  • Students will demonstrate an appropriate level of physical fitness consistent with their individual potential.

Cognitive

  • Students will display a knowledge of motor skills, rules, and strategies that support safe and effective performance in physical activity.
  • Students will design personal fitness programs based on fitness principles and a recognition of the health benefits of physical activity.
  • Students will employ critical and creative thinking skills and strategies.

Affective

  • Students will display enjoyment and a positive self concept through opportunities to participate successfully in sport, fitness, and creative movement experiences.
  • Students will show an appreciation for individual differences and the beneficial relationships that can be established and enhanced through physical activity experiences.
  • Students will demonstrate personal autonomy, responsibility, honesty, and a positive competitive spirit while working respectfully and cooperatively with others.

DANCE OUTCOMES

Elementary School

Outcome I: Perceiving and Responding-Aesthetic Education

    The student will demonstrate the ability to use perceptual skills through performing and responding in dance.

Outcome II: Historical, Cultural, and Social Context

    The student will demonstrate an understanding of dance, its relationship to other significant components of history and human experience, and ways that it provides opportunities for individual, cultural, and creative expression.

Outcome III: Creative Expression and Production

    The student will develop the ability to produce spontaneous movement from various stimuli.

Outcome IV: Aesthetic Criticism

    The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, and apply criteria for making aesthetic judgements in dance.

Middle School

Outcome I: Perceiving and Responding-Aesthetic Education

    The student will demonstrate the ability to use perceptual skills through performing and responding in dance.

Outcome II: Historical, Cultural, and Social Context

    The student will demonstrate an understanding of dance, its relationship to other significant components of history and human experience, and ways that it provides opportunities for individual, cultural, and creative expression.

Outcome III: Creative Expression and Production

    The student will develop the ability to create dance by improvising, organizing dance ideas, and performing.

Outcome IV: Aesthetic Criticism

    The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, and apply criteria for making aesthetic judgements in dance.

High School

Outcome I: Perceiving and Responding-Aesthetic Education

    The student will demonstrate the ability to use perceptual skills through performing and responding in dance.

Outcome II: Historical, Cultural, and Social Context

    The student will demonstrate an understanding of dance, its relationship to other significant components of history and human experience, and ways that it provides opportunities for individual, cultural, and creative expression.

  Outcome III: Creative Expression and Production

    The student will develop the ability to create dance by improvising, organizing dance ideas, and performing.

Outcome IV: Aesthetic Criticism

    The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, and apply criteria for making aesthetic judgements in dance.

Last updated: March 9, 2001