So I'm making a concerted effort for this Module to dedicate one day of the week to completing tasks, reading relevant material as I want to stay ahead and not feel like I'm trailing behind playing catch-up which is a little how I felt on the last Module - work permitting of course but I'm determined !!!
Can't deny that after having started to read and then re-read we've definitely stepped up a gear this module.
I have tried to refer back to Task 2d to inspire me into attempting this task and I have also revisited other tasks from the previous module to ensure I maintain some theory of continuity within my work as I began to explore certain lines of inquiry that both interested me and at the same time provided me with barriers to my own practise. Teaching of young adults and teenagers continues to challenge me and how their development and learning has changed throughout my own experience of teaching in the world of dance. They continually provide me with questions as to how I can better facilitate their needs and ensure they achieve the most from their lessons which I find myself not really exploring in relation to younger students.
Here are a few questions I feel are a starting point if anything towards a Professional Inquiry :
Does being an experienced teacher and parent affect expectations placed on older students/teenagers ?
Do younger, newly qualified teachers have a better understanding of a students emotions and feelings as they have recently transitioned through this period in their own lives ? and does this allow them to build more productive relationships with students ?
Do peers affect the level of engagement on students within a lesson ? and would a philosophy of teamwork integrated into lessons provide them with security and promote positive and effective learning ?
What strategies can a dance teacher bring to the lesson to build confidence and develop performance skills in teenagers and young adults ? How does this differ from the teaching of younger students ?
Can a more informal teaching approach towards teenagers/young adults assist in providing effective results in relation to their learning and achievements ?
Or is a formal approach providing discipline and standards as upheld with all classes taught, imperative to provide consistency and structure to lessons and so in the long term achieve a valued outcome for the student ?
For now I feel I have drained my brain of some thoughts but I'm sure I'll revisit this blog to venture further.
Hi Jo
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree it's stepped up a gear! I just said the same on someone else's blog! I too have decided to dedicate one full day as week to the course, but find with all the reading involved in this module it's just not enough - I've found myself doing uni work every day. How are you finding it?
Regards
Megan
Thanks for your post Megan - so far posted one task as you've seen but been reading and reading on and off and speaking with my teachers who work with me bouncing information and ideas off them - can't really switch off if I'm honest but prefer to be like that than ignoring it and getting behind and the crash landing into the end of this 12 wk block and cramming !!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully manage to keep up with it - how was your feedback on the last module ? Anxiously awaiting the 25/feb for the official results !!!!
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ReplyDeleteI have found another person who is a teacher and would like to use their inquiry based on it. Yey!
Just out of curiousity, how would you answer your 4th questions? It's similar to one of my own.
Thanks
Kimberley
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DeleteHi Kim,
DeleteTaken me a while to get sat back down at my desk in Uni work mode to reply to your question. I do try and treat my older students in a more mature approach and provide them with responsibility within class whether it be to teach an exercise to others or demonstrate whereby they are themselves doing well with a movement or exercise whilst being consicous of their awareness of others around them. I try and rotate class lines so everyone gets to be at the front whereby they have to think themselves and not copy others as well as being far more productive for their learning. I also try and determine where they stand as opposed to with friends as this is when their concentration falls as they tend to get into conversation and lose their attention and focus.
A few of my older students participate in helping out at younger classes - this provides them with a role of an assistant teacher and therefore they appreciate and understand the structure a lesson has to take in order to provide productive learning and can be a great confidence builder to support them in their own classes.
All students are indeed indviduals and have differing needs and so as a teacher you are required to identify those and provide effective learning.
The comments that have been removed from above have been re-directed to Task 4c as thats where they should be appropriately placed as wrote by a colleague !!
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