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Additional Information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 45 KB)

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student’s work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range	A student in this range:
High	explores and manipulates aspects of the elements of dance to create, select and refine movement to communicate ideas developed from a stimulus structures the movements to create a short dance that effectively communicates an idea discusses the development of the dance through the elements of dance to communicate ideas developed from a stimulus, using appropriate and relevant dance terminology
Satisfactory	explores and applies aspects of the elements of dance to create, select and refine movement to communicate ideas developed from a stimulus links the movements to create a short dance that communicates an idea describes the development of the dance and their use of the elements of dance to communicate ideas developed from a stimulus, using basic dance terminology
Progressing	explores and applies aspects of the elements of dance to create and select movement that to some extent communicates ideas developed from a stimulus with guidance, links the movements to create a short dance that communicates an idea with guidance, describes the development of the dance and their use of the elements of dance to communicate ideas developed from a stimulus, using some dance terminology.

Feedback

Students will be given support and oral feedback during the development of their short dance. The teacher will give oral and written feedback after the students present their completed dance relative to the criteria. The teacher will also provide written annotations in the students’ journals as appropriate. Comments inform students about such things as their ability to:

develop movement ideas from a stimulus
select and refine movements to best communicate their ideas
link their movement to create a short dance that communicates their ideas from a stimulus.

Future directions

At the completion of this assessment for learning Activity, students will document the process in their journals. They will engage in further activities in this unit of work that continue to refine the short dance that they have created. Aspects of the elements of dance will be explored and applied to this dance, which will further reflect the ideas developed from a stimulus. Attention to dance technique and safe dance practice will also be included. Students will have further experiences creating short dances in response to different stimuli, with application of aspects of the elements of dance that best contribute to the communication of ideas.