School and Education ranges from various learnings and experiences. As such, it is important to incorporate and value the diversity of learners as well as the cognitive, social,  emotional and physical aspects of life and education.

In order for a child to be the centre of their education, we as teachers need to value and meet their needs socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively. Thus, supporting and teaching them a well balanced lifestyle and skills. In resent studies, there has been evidence of dance teaching valuable life skills. Notably, teamwork, empathy, respect, collaboration and cooperation. This is key as dancing is very expensive and many students will only be exposed to arts based programs through school. As a result, it is important that the arts are well supported in our current and future education systems and classrooms.

The following article describes many of these factors in relation to the importance of dance. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/learning-empathy-through-dance/426498/

Some facts and numbers that stood out to me was how according to the previous article “66 percent reported an “increased acceptance of others”.” and how the arts funding is decreased in school but rather it should be increased.

The following tweet describes some of the skills dance supports through a visual photo.