Teaching Children Dance, Third Edition, enables teachers to understand the components and benefits of children s dance. It helps them to develop the skills required for enhancing or initiating dance as part of the physical education or arts curriculum for children of nursery and primary school age. This updated third edition identifies how dance experiences assist children to cultivate skills in creative thinking, collaboration, communication, global awareness and self-direction. It presents dance as a mode of learning that involves the whole child, using the body and the senses to gather information, communicate and demonstrate conceptual understanding. It presents the fundamentals of programme construction and delivery, guidelines on tailoring a dance programme to fit various teaching situations and advice on maintaining and developing it.