I. CONSULTING SERVICES FOR COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Dear Departments of Dance and Colleges of Fine Arts:
Let’s design a new dance curriculum or refine your existing one. One of our specialties is undergraduate teacher certification in dance education.

FOR DANCE DEGREE PROGRAMS
  • Design or refine a BA in Dance Education with teacher certification
  • Design or refine a BFA in Dance Education with teacher certification
  • Perform a curriculum audit of your dance education degree and giving it a tune-up

FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION COURSES
  • Integrating content and instruction across the arts
  • Teaching and learning in and through dance
  • Creative problem-solving and higher order thinking in dance

II. CONSULTING SERVICES FOR K-12 SCHOOL DISTRICTS

CURRICULUM CONSULTING
Dear School Administrators:
Let’s design a dance education curriculum for your school district that integrates content, instruction, and assessment into a comprehensive standards-oriented program to insure your students excel. One of our strong points is start-up programs. We help you:
  • emphasize critical thinking and inquiry
  • integrate dance with the other arts
  • integrate dance across the curriculum
  • achieve National Standards for Dance Education
  • shape gifted and talented dance programs

III. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Inquire about these professional development opportunities and let’s discuss how we can tailor them to suit your particular needs.

DANCE SPECIALIST WORKSHOPS
Lead intensives professional development on one of these focus topics:
  • “Teaching Dance as Art in Education”
  • “Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Dance”
  • “Decoding Dance Works—from 8 to 80” (Analysis and Critique)
  • “Teaching Creative Dance for Children K-5”
  • “Teaching the Art and Craft of Choreography”
  • “Introducing Hot New Resources into the Dance Classroom”
Create integrated units of study in dance to maximize the artistic processes in dance.

ONE WEEK INSTITUTE
Resource: Teaching Dance as Art in Education (McCutchen. 2006/Human Kinetics)
Credit: 1-2 s.h.

Expected Outcomes:
  • to create models of 6DC Cornerstone Model of Educational Dance to implement
  • to create contextual units of study and integrate dance’s artistic processes--creating, performing, and responding
  • to utilize developmental principles as a measure of age appropriateness
  • to include all national dance standards
  • to use and develop new-to-you methods of instruction
  • to integrate skills as performers, choreographers, dance historians,cultural anthropologists, and dance critics.


Brenda Pugh McCutchen, M.F.A., Consultant
Author of Teaching Dance as Art in Education, Human Kinetics (2006)
Experienced Dance Education Professor, Arts Educator, Dance Consultant, Curriculum Designer, Workshop Leader. Creator of Resourceful Resources: Toolkits for Dance Education.