HOW CAN DANCE BENEFIT YOUR LEARNING AT SCHOOL?

WHY DANCE?

A lot of people underestimate dance. They think in order to be in dance you have to be good at it, that's not the case!

Did you know that dance is the best way to improve a person's cognitive skills for all ages. Cognitive skills are what you use for simple tasks or really hard tasks. Dancing pumps blood to the brain, giving it the glucose and oxygen it needs! Also, years of training can enable dancers to suppress signals from the balance organs in the inner
ear linked to the cerebellum.

MOVEMENT IS THE KEY TO LEARNING.

During the 1977 school year (Which was 39 years ago), 250 students from 4 elementary studied LA concepts through movement and dance activities for 20 weeks. This improved their MAT scores by 13 percent from fall to spring! While, the district wide average showed a decrease of 2 percent! Dancing helps your learning.

But, not all forms of dance help/benefit with your learning especially if they only focus on style and have the same memorized paths. Freestyle dancing is great because it makes you use split second decision making!

INTELEGENCE IS,"WHAT WE USE WHEN WE DON'T ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO"

Dance is a ,"split second, rapid-fire decision making" Dance also makes the brain use several functions at once, like kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional. Which is increasing your neural connectivity.

FUN FACTS!

• A major study showed that dancing can get rid of/help Alzheimer's disease and other dementia!
• Improving your balance will make you less dizzy.

Dancing can help your memory,"Which is key to maintaining intelligence because it forces to regularly rewrite its neural pathways, giving you greater cognitive reserve and increased complexity of neural synapses" Basically, what that meant was dancing is really good for your memory.

CREDITS

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201310/why-is-dancing...
• http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm
• http://examinedexistence.com/dancing-helps-the-brain-function-better/

CREDITS

• http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/Arts%20in%20Educa...
• http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/benefits-dance-brain/981074/
• http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/12/18/what-are-cognitive-abilities/

THANK YOU!