Dance Student Assessment Guide with Rubrics

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Get ready for your easiest dance student evaluation process ever with this beautifully designed dance student assessment guide and rubrics!

The Holistic Guide to Dance Student Assessment is a comprehensive resource for encouraging, growth-oriented, and holistic evaluation of your dance students’ learning. By having a comprehensive assessment process in place, dance teachers can ensure that their dance students are continually learning, improving, and working toward their goals. Support your dance students and reduce drama among dance parents and caregivers with a dance student assessment process that clearly communicates where your dance students are at in terms of dance technique, artistry, and overall wellbeing.

The Holistic Guide to Dance Student Assessment leads dance teachers, studio owners, and program directors through the process of evaluating their dance students based on dance technique, artistry, and social-emotional skills. It includes information on types of assessment that are relevant to dance education, what to assess in dance education, and how to conduct dance student assessment.

Using The Holistic Dance Student Evaluation process studio or program-wide can help studio owners and program directors ensure that their students are progressing appropriately through the curriculum, and that student leveling is as fair and unbiased as possible.

The guide also includes 3 detailed rubrics that help dance teachers assess their dance students’ performance in:

• Dance technique – using detailed breakdowns of technical concepts and skills that are shared among most dance genres, including alignment, coordination, balance and use of weight, space, and level.
• Artistry – using artistic skills that are relevant for all dance genres, including musicality, dancing alone and as an ensemble, and portraying a mood, emotion or character through their movement.
• Social-emotional skills that all students should be working toward, regardless of the dance genre they study, including persistence, team-work, respect, and responsibility.  

Also included are 4 additional documents:

• A blank rubric on which you can list the specific dance skills, concepts, and vocabulary of the dance form that the students have been working on throughout the term.
• A questionnaire to solicit additional written feedback from the dance instructor about the dance students’ growth and progress during the term.
• A student self-reflection form, to engage dance students in the evaluation process and better understand their goals, motivations, and self-perception.
• A parent/guardian reflection form to engage dance families in the evaluation process and help them understand their dancer’s goals, motivations, and progress throughout the term.
• An Overall Evaluation Notes and Recommendations page on which you can document general notes about the dancers’ progress, recommendations for their future training, and classes to register for next term, if applicable.

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Use The Holistic Guide to Dance Student Assessment with The Holistic Dance Teacher Dance Technique Skills Lists to help you determine dance technique skills to assess in ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, and lyrics dance!