Catalog Navigator : Ed.M. in Dance Education (Certification: Teacher of Dance)

Director: Frederick Curry (848-932-1372; email: fcurry@mgsa.rutgers.edu)

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The postbaccalaureate Ed.M. program with (K-12) teacher certification in dance education is designed for individuals who possess a baccalaureate degree and who wish to pursue PK-12 dance teacher certification and a master's degree in education at the same time. Certificates are recommended only in conjunction with the completion of the requirements for the Ed.M. degree.

The goal of the program is to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to be an effective PK-12 dance educator. The program has five supporting aims:

To develop students' knowledge of dance-as-art as an educational practice, scholarly field, and community of practice.
To increase students' knowledge about the pedagogy of teaching dance and how individual differences among children with respect to abilities and social, economic, and cultural backgrounds influence learning.
To support students in examining dance learning contexts for their potential to nurture identity formation, engender empathy, embrace diverse perspectives, and shape social transformation.
To empower students as advocates of dance-as-art state mandates who strive to ensure educational equity for all PK-12 children.
To increase students' abilities to develop curriculum; apply strategies for instruction, class management, and assessment; conduct research; and serve in leadership roles, providing them with practical teaching experiences.

DANCE SPECIALIZATION: Before teacher certification can be recommended, the student must have completed a minimum of 30 credits in dance. Fulfillment of dance courses is not required for admission into the program and may be completed co-requisitely during the master's degree program. Courses appearing on an undergraduate transcript that may satisfy these requirements must be comprehensive and representative of core artistic process content in dance, including knowledge and experience in Creating, Performing, Responding, and Historical/Cultural inquiry as aligns with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Performing Arts-Dance and New Jersey Professional Teaching Standard Four: Content Knowledge.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Note: Courses must be 300-level or above to count toward graduate credits. 300- and 400-level courses must be registered for with a G-prefix.

Dance Education (24 credits)

07:207:405 Motor Learning and Control Dance Pedagogy (3)

07:207:406 Introduction to Curriculum Design and Assessment for Dance (3)

07:207:407 Dance Technique Pedagogy (3)

07:207:408 Creative Dance Choreography Pedagogy (3)

07:207:501 Teaching Concepts in Dance for Students with Special Needs (3)

08:207:502 Embodied Dance History Pedagogy (3)

08:207:511 Leadership in Dance Education (3)

08:207:510 Introduction to Research in Dance Education (3)

Common Professional Education Core (15 credits)

05:300:306 Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)

05:300:450 Urban Education I (1.5)

05:300:451 Urban Education II (1.5)

05:300:452 Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in PK-12 Classrooms I (1.5)

05:300:453 Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in PK-12 Classrooms II (1.5)

15:255:534 Classroom Organization for Inclusive and Special Classrooms (3)

15:255:539 Students, Communities, and Social Justice (Kinetic Connections Section) (3)

Clinical Experience (20 credits)

15:255:530 Clinical Experience Phase 1 (1)

15:255:531 Clinical Practice Phase 2 (4)

15:255:535 Clinical Practice Phase 3 (9)

15:255:536 Clinical Practice Phase 3 Seminar (6)

General Education Requirements

15:255:503 Introduction to teaching with Digital Tools OR 05:300:350 Education and Computers; 05:300:307 Human Development: Birth through the Transition to Adulthood

Students must complete a minimum of 60 credits in liberal arts to earn the master's degree. Courses appearing on an undergraduate transcript may satisfy these requirements. Neither education courses nor any other performance-based or vocationally-oriented coursework (accounting, engineering, human resource management, public health, social work, etc.) may be counted toward the 60 liberal arts credits; no Rutgers School 05, School 15, or E-credit courses may be included.