When your Class Participates in Dance Around the World or ArtSmart, you can earn Continuing Education Units through these Tandy Beal and Company Programs
Dance Around the World (DATW) Classroom Residencies
Overview: If your class participates in a DATW residency, you can accrue hours
toward units. These creative movement residencies culminate in a concert alongside
your students with adult world dance and music artists. DATW goals are to engage
students with movement, broaden their perspective and their dreams, invite them to
think creatively, expand their curiosity and knowledge, and bring joy to their lives.
And for teachers too!
FOUNDATIONAL DATW - 1 CEU credit - 15 Hours:
• Participate alongside your students in weekly sequential classes for 8 weeks.
• Attend a pre-residency administrative meeting with our team, your school-teachers
and your principal.
• Utilize our ‘Cultural Passport’ to invite and honor the class’ various heritages and
cultural experiences.
• Encourage all students to research and share with the class a ‘fun fact’ about the
country we are studying. You will choose 4-8 students for the concert to present a
fact.
• Complete our DATW evaluation form.
Additional Unit in conjunction with DATW:
Arts Integration and Assessment -1 CEU credit
Arts Integration: You develop and write up 3 plans of how you will incorporate art
and/or Visual and Performing Arts standards into your daily lesson plans. A Company
lead teacher reads and the University of the Pacific, Bernerd College, reviews and
grades your plans.
Assessment: You track improvement in VAPA and PE standard skills as well as SEL
(teamwork, listening, creativity, focus) over the course of the residency. We give you
assessment forms to fill in with your observation of skills improvement. Starts with pre-
residency checklist and completes with final evaluation.
New Skills Acquisition: Either read one of the below books and write paper highlighting
techniques you can incorporate in your own teaching or take a Professional
Development workshop offered by the Company - offered intermittently throughout the
year.
Suggested Readings:
Mind, Body, Spirit in Action: A Teachers’ Guide to Creative Dance, by Patricia Reedy
Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition, With Web Resource, by Anne Green Gilbert
Brain Compatible Dance Education, by Anne Green Gilbert
Movement Stories for Young Children: Ages 3-6 (Young Actors Series), by Helen
Landalf
First Steps in Teaching Creative Dance, by Mary Joyce