A psychologist, Dr Annie Gaisie has stressed the need for teachers to use innovative methods to understand the minds and attitudes of school pupils.
According to her, simple innovative methods like dance can help teachers to communicate with pupils and understand them better.
The psychologist said this at a Social Action Day program organized at Brainy Bairn School at West Legon in Accra.
Dance therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body.
Dr Gaisie who participated in the school’s Social Action Day program introduced the therapy to teachers and parents of the Brainy Bairn School.
She said when children listen to the lyrics of good music and dance, the brain releases “happy hormones” to every part of the body that help a child to communicate anger, stress, frustrations, abuse and more.
She added, “as they dance, they dance the stress and everything out. It is just like pushing out your anxiety and everything”.
Head teacher of Brainy Bairn, Akweley Odonkor said the school will adopt the method to help some of its pupils “who are not forthcoming when it comes to contributing in class”. She was optimistic both teachers and pupils will benefit greatly from the therapy.
“We have many children struggling to settle down, attention seekers…teachers will be able to come up with five minutes dance moves that will cause children to reorient themselves and settle for the day”, she said.
By: Eugenia Tenkorang/citifmonline.com/Ghana