A quick write-up of today's great conversations:
Distance:
distance = disconnect to distance = perspective
Technique:
I tell my students 'technique is the vehicle that will help you to dance and help you to keep dancing'. This course is teaching technique too look out for it. It is what will help you to do the expressive part. Don't see each module as a 'thing' with 'things' in it see it as part of building a technique that you will continue to use after the course is finished.
Trust:
Read the blogs and past blog posts, look at what you have done in other modules, look at other module handbooks.
Perfect:
If you woke up on Monday with the perfect question, or data, or job description or etc... what would you do the rest of the week or the rest of your life?? If you were perfect where would all the fun be!! and the rest of us imperfect people would miss you.
Be flexible:
Tara in the comments below please give the citation for the book you talked about (flexible and fixed teaching methods).
Its a process.
Explore our learn community blogs for other peoples posts on the conversations.
What do you feel?
Adesola
Distance:
distance = disconnect to distance = perspective
Technique:
I tell my students 'technique is the vehicle that will help you to dance and help you to keep dancing'. This course is teaching technique too look out for it. It is what will help you to do the expressive part. Don't see each module as a 'thing' with 'things' in it see it as part of building a technique that you will continue to use after the course is finished.
Trust:
Read the blogs and past blog posts, look at what you have done in other modules, look at other module handbooks.
Perfect:
If you woke up on Monday with the perfect question, or data, or job description or etc... what would you do the rest of the week or the rest of your life?? If you were perfect where would all the fun be!! and the rest of us imperfect people would miss you.
Be flexible:
Tara in the comments below please give the citation for the book you talked about (flexible and fixed teaching methods).
Its a process.
Explore our learn community blogs for other peoples posts on the conversations.
What do you feel?
Adesola
Completely agree with you RE: technique- it was thru technique that i found the confidence to express.
ReplyDeleteHi Sinead, Following on from the last skype chat, this is something that might be of interest. Its not very long
DeleteThe paper touches on dance as a sport and the sexualisation of girls. It also talks a bit about the reasons girls choose this type of dance - ironically often because there is no other choice and they know and have been exposed to nothing else.
The Politics of Personal Pedagogy Examining Teacher Identities
Julie Kerr-Berry, Ed.D., Karen Clemente, Ed.D., and Doug Risner, Ph.D.
Really useful to read your blog as I was unable to connect with the skype call this weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'll admit to thinking of each module as a 'thing' with 'things' to do in the past. Now in the midst of module 3 I can see the links to previous modules and can already see the impact the research will have on my ongoing teaching practice.
Completely agree - the most interesting element of research for me, is how to use it to inform practical decisions - not always clear at first but when the realisation comes it`s a great moment!
DeleteThe book I mentioned during the skype chat is called 'Mindset' by Dr. Carol Dweck. My blog will initiate some thoughts and questions based on this theory.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tara
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