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TEACHING STRATEGIES it is important to create safe dance spaces. Safe dance often refers to the rthe safe use of the students bodies. Just a it is important that we As we learnt in previous levels, s important physical environment (i.e. the studio or room itself) 0 ur discussion of 'clear instructions, is to create 'child safe' spaces. As mentioned in o the students. This is just one step change our teaching styles and strategies to meet the age and stage of towards creating a 'child safe' space. A teaching strategy is a method of instruction or resource that teachers use to share information with a class. For example, in a drama class teaching strategies could be reading a script in a group, watching a live perfor- mance, participating in a workshop, completing a worksheet, researching a topic or listening to the teacher talk about a topic. Now, give some thought as to what teaching strategies could be in a dance class. Through observation or discussion with your teacher or mentor, describe 6 teaching strategies and how you would vary them for a junior or senior class. Check out the following example to get you started... TEACHING STRATEGY A picture of the muscular systems showing the location and shape of the muscles they may be trying to use ina certain exercise A picture book where students can look at the different poses and then try and create the poses themselves Using pictures to help give information i \\ 'itl dal