The Benefits of Wellness Dance among Grade 7 Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Dance wellness is comprised of a wide array of components that share the common goal of the overall health and well-being of the dancer. Drawing from a number of disciplines, dance wellness seeks a balanced, integrative, and interdisciplinary approach to health and well-being; Dance wellness has three primary functions -education, service, and research. The rationale supported the dance wellness curricular model. Cardinal, et. al (2015)

METHODS

The study used two sets of questionnaire for the two hundred (200) respondents from grade 7 and ten (10) MAPEH teachers. Table 7: Present the Performance of Grade 7 Students' in P.E. with respect to Academic and Non-academic. The mean level shows 88.4 with standard deviation 1.46 was interpreted as "Very Satisfactory" while the non-dancing group (academic) performance of the students in terms of grade point average the mean level shows 86.4 with standard deviation 1.57 was verbally interpreted as "Very Satisfactory"

RESULTS

There is a significant difference in between the performance of the dancing group and the performance of the non-dancing group in the Benefits of Wellness Dance among Grade 7 students' as indicated by the computed t value of 9.08 significant at 0.05 level. Therefore, the null hypothesis is accepted.

DISCUSSIONS

It was recommended that to improve the Wellness Dance of the (1) Teachers may encourage the students to promote the good health benefits of the wellness dance inside and out of the school. (2) Everyone needs to motivate and should implement the wellness dance in PE. (3) Facilities and equipment must be provided and the administrative support be extended to improve the implementation of the wellness dance program. (4) Time allocation and community support should also be pledged for continuing of the wellness dance program.