Tinikling: Philippine Folk Dance for Fitness and Team Building

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This course is offered as part of Human Kinetics Professional Development. The course is an online, self-paced experience with an instructor, and assignments can be completed at the student’s own convenience. It is worth 6 professional development hours. There is no graduate credit or CEU credit for this course.

We know you will find this course valuable and enjoyable. If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].

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PE Central and Human Kinetics Professional Development

Introduction

Tinikling is a folk dance from the Philippines that lends itself very well to a well-rounded physical education program. It only requires basic, easily-sourced equipment. Tinikling provides moderate to vigorous levels of cardiorespiratory physical activity and builds students’ fitness-related skills including agility, timing, balance, hand/eye coordination, and more. It also will help develop team-building and prosocial skills such as cooperation, teamwork, turn-taking, and communication.

If you want to do all this while also expanding students’ PE beyond the more commonly known games, sports, and dances of the western world, tinikling is a perfect addition to your program.

Target Audience

This course is designed for grade 3-12 physical education teachers.

Course Purpose

The purpose of this course is to provide physical educators with a comprehensive unit-plan so you can learn and teach tinikling even if you have never heard of it before. This course will take you from the basic history of tinikling all the way to teaching it lesson by lesson. This course will take you from zero knowledge to teaching a complete unit that is properly sequenced and standards-based.

Course Description

This course is a comprehensive ground-up unit that includes everything from the background/scaffolding information to day-by-day sequenced lesson plans, as well as information about how to source the equipment as easily/cheaply as possible.

You will learn the basic building blocks of the dance as well as how to teach it in a properly sequenced and standards-based unit. This course will give you options to scale the activity up, if desired, to the point where you can have students put on an in-class and whole-school presentation for classmates, teachers, and parents if you so choose.

This course is an online, self-paced experience with an instructor, and assignments can be completed at the student’s own convenience. It is worth 6 professional development hours. There is no graduate credit or CEU credit for this course.

Course Design

The modules of this course will take approximately 6 hours to complete. You may be able to apply for 6 professional development hours with your school district. Make sure to check with your principal or professional development coordinator to clarify how professional development hours and credit work in your district. This course is entirely self-paced, meaning you can progress through the content as fast/slow as you choose, and you may also bounce around between modules at your leisure. You will receive a course completion certificate at the end, but you will not receive a letter grade or college credit.

Certificate of Completion

You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of this course. If you have any trouble with receiving your certificate, please contact [email protected].

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, physical educators will be able:

• To introduce tinikling to students, even those who have never heard of it before
• To teach basic background/historical information about tinikling
• To source the necessary equipment, including “DIY” style equipment
• To facilitate students learning and engaging in prosocial team-building skills, including cooperation, communication, patience, and problem-solving
• To teach the “clapping,” basic steps, and combination steps
• To lead students to engage in creation of new steps/combinations
• To lead the included sequenced lesson plans, which could culminate in small (in-class) presentations or larger presentations, such as a school assembly

Standards

This course addresses the following SHAPE America National Standards for K-12 Physical Education (2024).

• Standard 1. Develops a variety of motor skills.
• Standard 2. Applies knowledge related to movement and fitness concepts.
• Standard 3. Develops social skills through movement.
• Standard 4. Develops personal skills, identifies person benefits of movement, and chooses to engage in physical activity.

Technology Required

You will need a computer or a tablet with an updated browser, as well as a valid email address.