When
–
Location
Harrison Workshop Room B
Props
scarves
3 Balls
Balls
Cigar Boxes
Rings
Clubs
Feathers
Diabolo
All Toss Props
Skill Level
All Skill Levels
Instructor
Dave Finnigan
Teach Juggling:
Benefits of Juggling (small group discussion)
1. Areas of concern:
- Fitness
- Motor skills
- Rhythm
- Balance
- Coordination
- Behavioral
- Social
- Attitudinal
- Creativity
- Problem solving
2. Learning Styles:
- Spatial
- Musical
- Kinesthetic
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal Logical
- Mathematical
- Linguistic
3. Academic Projects – Educating the “Whole Child” and creating “Life-long learners.”
- Reading books on juggling and the circus, etc
- Keeping a juggling diary
- Scheduling a professional juggler for a show in the school
- Sending Master juggler students to perform at district or state education conferences
- Joining the IJA
- Students give lessons to community members
- When the circus comes to town, take a school field trip and meet the performers
- Hold a Juggle-a-thon for a local charity
- Combine juggling with track
- Conduct your own research of the relationship between advancement in juggling and academic advancement, reading, math and disruptive behavior.
4. Psycho-social impact –
- Educating the whole child and creating life-long learners
- Implementing a cross age tutoring program
- Working with local Senior Centers
- Students going to other schools to teach juggling
- Accommodating all students regardless of gender, size, age, physical skill, developmental disability, previous movement experience.
- Adapting to and actually treating awkwardness, ADHD, Dyslexia
5. Teachers in over 2,000 schools in 46 states and several countries hosted our programs and reported that the program can:
- Greatly improve student behavior
- Help students concentrate and stay on task
- Develop tracking skills, vital for reading
- Improve sequencing skills, important for math
- Improve fine motor skills and handwriting
- Boost self-esteem
- Improve cardio-vascular fitness
- Develop eye-hand coordination, stage presence and self-esteem
- Develop balance, rhythm and reflexes
- Give musical, spatial, kinesthetic and interpersonal learners a way to excel
- Stimulate imagination, curiosity and higher order problem solving
- Give students a skill to share with others, especially family members
- Get students in the habit of daily physical activity
- Teach everyone that after you have been sitting for a while, getting up and moving is important
- Help students develop patience and persistence
- Provide a cooperative learning model that is useful for life
- Reinforce life-long and open ended learning
- Crystalize school and class spirit
- Remind students and teachers to never limit themselves and that taking challenges can be fun!
Find more workshops here: https://festival.juggle.org/workshops/