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This year, the Faculty of Education will be running a series of workshops for both dance and non-dance teachers as part of this annual celebration of teaching and learning at Farnborough Sixth Form College, which will be taking place on Monday 11th June.

Monday 30th April saw the opening of the UK's first National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science, which was made possible through collaboration between six major dance organisations, universities and hospitals. Read Dance UK's press release.

We are still currently recruiting for part-time students for the BA (Hons) Dance Education programme. This exciting distance learning degree has something for everyone, whether you want to teach in schools, open your own private dance studio, work in the community or generally further your own professional development.

A graduate of our Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma, Kathlyn Pope, is currently involved with the Berlin Staatsballett Education Programme and contacted us recently to tell us about an exciting youth project which took place at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in March.

The Faculty of Education is proud to announce the introduction of a new programme of study, which was recently launched by the Director of Education,  Dr. Anne Hogan, at the International Dance Summit 2012 hosted by Staatsballett Berlin.

One student currently enrolled on the Master of Teaching (Dance) programme has been promoting the Continuing Professional Development of dance teachers in her role as Development Officer at Creative Scotland, in partnership with Education Scotland. Katy McKeown recently organised and led a dance education tour for Scottish secondary teachers and dance artists to the Holland Dance Festival.

Dr. Johan Stjernholm, Lecturer in Dance Studies, is currently creating choreography for a new work called Clytemnestra. The work has been commissioned by the Sherman Cymru Theatre in Cardiff and written by Gwyneth Lewis, the first writer to be chosen as the National Poet of Wales.

This year, the Faculty of Education presented a series of seminars as part of the Dance Teachers' Convention at MOVE IT! which took place at Kensington Olympia on 9th - 11th March. Faculty of Education lecturers led the following sessions:

Our Master of Teaching (Dance) is a flexible, distance learning programme designed to meet the needs of dance teachers working in both the private and public sectors.

Distinguished by its emphasis on work-based research, this programme can be studied part-time from home allowing you to combine your studies with work commitments. Find out more.

The latest Bulletin for Teachers from the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science is now available for free online at:

http://www.iadms.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=243