Workshop: Take the Fear Out of Teaching Dance.
Create fun, enterttaining, choreographed dance pieces in your PE classes.
SECRETS REVEALED

Lec/Dem: Developing a Successful After School Dance Program
Learn how to create a successful after school program from those who have done it.
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE

Lec/Dem: Creating Fun Movement Activities in the Classroom
Learn how to use pedestrian, everyday movement to create fun movement activieies.
MAKING IT FUN

Workshop DVD:
Teaching "I Believe"

Workshop Handout

FLY KiDS Teacher Workshops

FLYworks is offering workshops and lecture/demonstrations for Staff Development produced and presented by Artistic Director Kathy Wood, FLY KiDS Director Rhonda Valencia, and Education Specialist Carolyn Portis who have a combined eighty years of teaching experience and achievement in dance, PE, and curriculum writing.

Workshop:Take the Fear Out of Teaching Dance

Providing PE teachers sure-fire methods for producing and teaching choreography.
Choreographed dance piece taught as an exercise. Instructional DVD for choreography available. Secrets for success revealed. Simple techniques for producing a maximum of choreographed dance pieces with tricks of the choreographer's trade. Methods for using student contributed movement for variety and student shared project ownership. How to structure choreographed dance segments with freestyle dance movement for increased variety and iinterest. Taking the mystery out of counting and phrasing music. Learning to devise your own shorthand notation for the phrases in a piece of music. Advice on music selection. Physical education TEKS and academic integration discussed and documented in handout materials.

Music—Selecting, counting; Choreography—Methods, actual dance piece with instructional DVD

Curriculum Connections—Academic integration, PE TEKS

Bound workshop guide—Explanations, tips, advice, and resources

FUN DYNAMIC ENERGETIC — A complete teaching program.

Full Program (Half Day)
Intensive (Full Day)

Lec/Dem: Developing a Successful After School Dance Program

Presented by Rhonda Valencia, the creator of a very successful Texas after school program at the Morris Fifth Grade School in Pasadena, Texas.

How to create and maintain a successful after school dance program as a fabulous activity for kids and an asset to the school. Principals, PE and dance teachers.

Selecting students, rules, costumes, music, facilities and equipment needed, staffing, parent relations, record keeping, public relations benefits to the school. Workshop guide

ENTERTAINING, ENLIGHTENING — Secrets of success revealed.

Full Program (Half Day)
Intensive (Full Day)

Lec/Dem: Creating Fun Movement Activities in the Classroom

Presented by Kathy Wood, FLYworks Artistic Director, Creator of the Professional FLY Dance Company, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Dance Educators Association. Pedestrian movement: A new way to create fun movement activities for the classroom.

Pedestrian movement is everyday movement all students and teachers can already do.

Learn the keys to making it really fun.

HILARIOUS CREATIVITY — Easily create 15 minutes of classroom fun everyday.

Full Program (3hours)