Many young children are creatively uninhibited, and tend to be more eager to perform their accomplishments in front of a willing audience. The desire to present their learnings is a normal progression. It is the creative process that encourages students to share, analyze, and evaluate their own work, and the work of others. An informal sharing is a developmentally appropriate performance experience for young children. These settings provide unique opportunities to define the roles of the performers and audience members.
Children learn how to respond to dance appropriately.
In addition, the experience helps them to build confidence and pride in their work. Some objectives, which do not appear to follow the same progression, recur at different grade levels for the purpose of reinforcement and extension. In addition, the content, instruction, student outcomes, and evaluation methods should increase in sophistication at each grade level, or whenever differentiation is necessary. Teachers should modify objectives appropriately to meet the instructional and development needs of each student. The K-2 dance program prepares students to continue dance studies at the upper elementary level.