My BAPP Journey

Reflecting on my development in my practice. Since starting module two I have become more aware of the role of a teacher in my practice as well as where I would like my career to go in the future. I have a better understanding of the impact they can make on a child's well being and how much of a influence you can be towards them. Some teachers do not understand fully what impact they can have on students with their attitude and approach to teaching. So I begun to question myself how I would handle myself and approach situation with students in my class, the content and methods used with in my class to achieve the most out of my students. Thinking about my inquiry being around children. I researched into ethics around children and found a very interesting read here is a link as I think it will be beneficial for others to.  www.ethicsdance.co.uk/resources/downloads/A-Dancer-is-A-Person.pdf

5B - Policies and Ethics in my Workplace. After speaking to my boss in my workplace she just had the genetic policies and ethics which i wrote down from my first thought to this in Task 5A. So when researching into it again I wanted to develop my knowledge even more. So I asked around some Facebook groups such as "dancers and dance teachers" "Dance Teachers Forum" (which I joined up to during module 1 whilst trying to develop my networking skills) asking questions such as what they expected from their teachers and what policies and ethics they expect to not just from their staff and teachers but from parent and students to. Some teachers even have contracts for their teachers for them to agree to their policies but for my work place I didn't have a contract but I already act in a professional way which obey to the policies and ethics in my work place. Here is a spider diagram showing what I found (Shock) That's whats is expected for being a dance...

Task 5A: My Professional work Place   As we all know from my previous blogs from module 1 I love a spider diagram and here it is making an appearance...  Here are my thoughts about what I think the ethics with my workplace are without any research in to it. 

4D - Important Literature After researching and researching into my inquiry and questions I have flying around my head. I finally came across some literature I find important to my inquiry and here they are... 1.   Teaching with the brain in mind 2nd Edition. by Eric Jensen.       Chapter 4: Movement and Learning Publisher: Association for supervision & Curriculum Development; 2nd ed. (30 May 2005) This first piece of literature I found rather and interesting read and relevant to my practice as it talks about links between movement and learning. Looking at scientific views of the brain and how physical activity and play helps improve behavior and performance in the classroom. It also talks about "simple biology supports an obvious link between movement and learning." As oxygen is essential for brain function and enhanced blood flow increases the amount of oxygen transported to the brain" and physical activity is a reliable key for this to happen. It...

4B: Developing my own SIG group. At first I wanted to really understand the meaning of special interest group. I immediately thought of networking we discussed in module one and what groups I am already involved in, such as; 1. Facebook Groups 2. past and present employers 3. other dance teachers 4. college friends 5. Bapp Blogs For the rest of my Bapp journey I am thinking of basing my research and inquiry around being a dance teacher  and dance educations in primary school.   If there is anyone else out there thinking along the same lines, hopefully we could join together in a SIG group I created to discuss and help each other to learn and develop as a practitioner in our practice.  Link to the SIG group: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113973209285569322898 Looking forward to hearing from you and discussing ideas.

Phone call with Adesola 18/10/17 A bit late in posting this as I've been busy researching my literature now I'm on the right tracks. During my phone call with Adesola she explained that we are not trying to prove a point in your inquiry but to look more in depth at it such as; 1. The history behind are inquiry or the science.  2. What other researchers have found out about the topic 3. what I want to gain and develop in my own practice from this. 4. look into the ethics around my inquiry such as children. 5. whats the funding like around my inquiry 6. is there a difference in different countries, such as America and England. This really help me to think forward and ahead but I really do think that I will be on the right tracks from now on as now I'm thinking my inquiry heading towards teaching and dance education in primary school as this is something I would like to gain and develop my own practice in.

HELLO Module 2.... So after a delayed starts to the module due to work commitments. I finally got stuck in and read the hand books. I'm excited to start researching for this module as well as developing as a practitioner. As this is the beginning of my journey into my inquiry I'm not expecting to find answers straight away, but hoping to gain more knowledge and experiences during my journey. Here are my questions and thoughts so far on what I find interesting... feel free to comment whether you have the same interests and questions and what your thoughts are on these inquiries.