How To Create an Effective Dance Literacy

How to Create a
6 DC Educational Dance
Program

Brenda Pugh McCutchen
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Author, Teaching Dance as Art in Education

The 6 DC model sets out to
improve how teachers teach
and how students experience
educational dance.

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http://dancecurriculumdesigns.com

1. What defines this model?
TEACHING DANCE AS ART IN EDUCATION’s

6 DC Model of Educational Dance
=Its Defining Characteristics=
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

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Comprehensive
Substantive
Sequential
Artistically-Driven
Contextually-Coherent
Inquiry-Based

=broad and diverse
=rigorous and significant
=incremental, progressive
=expressive, sensitive, high quality
=related and relevant
=examined, engaged, involved


2. Think of them as 6 parts of a whole.

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3. Set out to accomplish all six.
Helpful hints.

Explain dance’s overarching ideas
concisely and clearly.
Emphasize what’s most important to know
and do in dance.
Ensure students grasp all aspects of dance.
Create “dance literate" students.

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4. Emphasize dance’s cornerstone disciplines.
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Dancing/Performing
Creating/Composing
Analyzing/Critiquing
History/Context/Cultures

Ensure they are all strong in your curriculum.

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5. Absorb the 6 DC Cornerstone Framework
in Teaching Dance as Art in Education

 Examine the K-12 frameworks for
each cornerstone.
 Put all four together to make a
parallel, comprehensive curriculum.
 Notice these frameworks are
• substantive
• sequential (K through 12)
• artistically-driven

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6. Divide the content into teachable units.
• Cluster cornerstone content into
cohesive units of study
• Integrate cornerstone content.
• Select the overarching theme for each
unit
• Add other concepts you feel are
important
Turn integrated units into
meaningful contexts for learning.
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7. Master two vital teaching methods.
Creating contextual-coherence:
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•

Make connections to other aspects of
dance or other disciplines
Relate new ideas to familiar ones

Using inquiry-based methods:
• Ask the “essential questions”
• Emphasize critical thinking
All six defining characteristics
add educational value to your curriculum.
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Now you know the basics.
The ROOTS
of the of 6DC Model:

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1. Six defining
characteristics
2. Four essential dance
cornerstones
3. Sequential frameworks
for each cornerstone
4. Mastery of two
teaching styles


Next, let’s construct its
WINGS to help it fly.

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8. Find examples that add impact to units.
• Find resources that focus on key concepts and skills.
• Integrate artistic, historic, and cultural aspects in a
unit by featuring exemplary dance works.
– Shift fluidly between the artistic processes to connect the
dots between creating, performing, and responding
– Choose from a variety of dance genres
– Design lessons inspired by the dance work
– Use the works as creative impetus

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9. Select great works that demonstrate unit concepts.
Choose works that broaden perspective on dance.
• Choreographers worth knowing; artistic models
• Make some works the focal point of the unit
• Make other works examples to inspire

Show how great choreographers convey ideas.
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Analyze their work using the “Four-Step Critique”
Analyze their use of principles of design
Examine their creative process
Examine technique and performance qualities
Identify the impact of the work


10. Display dance’s essential concepts.

• Build basic vocabulary.
– Dance Elements
– Choreographic Principles of Design
– Choreographic Processes

• Emphasize vital processes.
– Choreographic processes and devices
– Four-step critique

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11. Find 6DC resources that actuate all six
defining characteristics.
6DC resources
• integrate content and
methods
• accentuates complexity
• incorporates diversity
• highlight core concepts
• spark the imagination
• feed the creative spirit

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They expand concepts and
skills year by year

• to grow with students as
they advance
• to support creative and
critical skills


12. Look for *6DC certified* resources

*
6DC Certified*

6DC resources integrate with each other.
Their concepts cross-pollinate to
exponentially increase dance literacy. This
develops coherent thinking and skills.
Resources are the 6DC Model’s WINGS.

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13. Add other good
resources.

High quality dance resources are found at
 NDEO Online Store
 Creative Dance Center, Seattle
 Southeast Center for Education in the Arts

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14. Explore 6DC resources at
www.dancecurriculumdesigns.
*6DC Certified* dance
toolkits pinpoint key
concepts and processes.
Clever devices create
lightning rods that pull
students away from the
computer to interact with
each other, with
ideas, using imagination
and movement.

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*6DC Certified* dance
literacy posters instruct and
inspire.
• Enduring Understanding
Posters: Ingrain key
concepts (like Dance
Elements).

• Essential Questions
Posters: Inquire into
diverse topics with guideddiscovery questions (like
Quick Six or 5Ws).


15. Stay true to the 6DC characteristics
• Comprehensive • Artistically driven
• Substantive
• Contextually coherent
• Sequential
• Inquiry based

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16. Rev up unit plans with
toolkits, posters, and other resources.
-Ignite student creativity and growth.
-Display posters so conceptual vocabulary
jumps.

Dance Curriculum Designs™
*6DC Certified*

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17. Enjoy building wings so your 6DC model
program can fly.

If you need us find us on the web.

 www.dancecurriculumdesigns.com
creates the highest quality dance literacy resources which
strategically impact education.

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Snapshot of cover of Toolkit One: Viewing Dance—
Vocabularies for Critiquing (2008)
What you can’t see are the 156 teaching resources inside such as
posters, focus charts, comment cards, critiquing questions, and all the tools to
facilitate a “four-step critique” and teach the choreographic principles of
design. Grade 4-college.
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ABOUT US

Brenda Pugh McCutchen introduced the 6 DC Model in
Teaching Dance as Art in Education (Human Kinetics, 2006).
It became the gold standard for dance education.
Today, her 6 DC teacher resources offer the vital tools that
enable educators to earn respect for dance as part of the core curriculum.

These resources ensure depth and diversity of content,
increase vocabulary and conceptual learning,
boost creating, performing, and responding skills,
sustain dance in education as an art, and always
engage creative minds.

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