Unit 5: Final Message
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Unit Intro
You have reached the final unit of this mini course! Congratulations, not just on completing this course, but making a distinguishable effort to improve your craft as an educator. Committing to more interdisciplinary practices will assuredly strengthen your positive impact on your students. Hopefully this mini-course has successfully inspired or guided you to integrate dance into your curriculum design.
Next Steps
What else, I thought I was done? Even though you have completed this mini-course, many of you know, as educators our jobs are never done. In a short amount of time, you have developed most of the important elements of an interdisciplinary unit. However, we did not structure all the information into one format or time out the activities in detail. This was partially because of time, but also because each of you may use your own school-mandated unit planners. Luckily, you have already done most of the hard planning work.
What if I need help? As impressive as I am sure your unit plans are, I imagine you may run into road blocks. It is important to feel comfortable doing a quick search for local dance educators and reaching out if you need help with the dance concepts. Most dance educators are very encouraged when non-dance educators seek to implement dance, I am sure they will be flattered and hopefully available to help. If not, please feel free to reach out to me to brainstorm unit ideas, I love collaborating even from afar! EMAIL - msjacobson@albany.edu
Thank You
Finally, I just want to say thank you again for visiting this mini course, and taking an interest in dance. I truly hope you gained something positive for your classrooms.