At the moment we are just over a week away from our yearly show with college and although my dancers are finished and I am happy with how they look. I feel I could spend forever cleaning them and tweaking little parts. Making sure it is blocked better or the timing is improved. I must drive my students mad.
Monday 11 May 2015
Never happy
Is it just me or does anyone else never feel satisfied with their finished product.
At the moment we are just over a week away from our yearly show with college and although my dancers are finished and I am happy with how they look. I feel I could spend forever cleaning them and tweaking little parts. Making sure it is blocked better or the timing is improved. I must drive my students mad.
The same applies with my work for BAPP. Although I am very satisfied with how my inquiry went and I feel it will make a big difference to my professional practice. I find my self reading and rereading my critical review and professional artefact and making small adjustments. I cant seem to bring myself to submit my work just in case I could make it better. This is driving me mad... must be karma. Pft.......
At the moment we are just over a week away from our yearly show with college and although my dancers are finished and I am happy with how they look. I feel I could spend forever cleaning them and tweaking little parts. Making sure it is blocked better or the timing is improved. I must drive my students mad.
Friday 1 May 2015
Professional Artefact
So how do I present what I've learned from this inquiry?
And who to?
I decided to write a proposal to my principal with my
findings and ideas on how we could hopefully improve student’s motivation. I
printed out my booklet (Artefact) and gave that to her along with the proposal.
After she had some time to read my proposal I had a meeting with her to discuss
my findings and show her the website. The meeting when really well!! My principal
was always supportive and interested in my inquiry and would like to integrate
my ideas into the college. I was later approach by the deputy principal and
financial director to congratulate me on my proposal and ideas. The deputy
principal asked if I would be involved in the meetings and the process of integrating
them into college. I'm really happy with the response to my inquiry and I'm excited to but it into action with the students.
And who to?
I'd set on devising a website that students could use to
help with their studies, as I looked into interdependent learning it would give
them a feeling autonomy and therefore increase their motivation to study. I
also wanted to create a Facebook group where students and teachers could ask
questions share videos and ideas. We've all learned the power of social media
on this course, I wanted to see if some of that would be use full to keep student's
motivation levels high.
Based on my research I concluded that if student where
taught the skills to help develop their motivation (intrinsic) rather that the
teachers creating motivation (extrinsic) it would have stronger and a more
lasting effect. So (thanks to a discussion with Paula) I also decided to design
a booklet for a student induction which would be held in the first week of
college. The booklet will give them strategies to help develop their intrinsic
motivation as well as introducing them to what's expected of them in regards to
self-study.
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