The final week of inputs has arrived, and I feel a more creative and empowered individual as a learner as well as having a bank of skills to use when educating others. This week our first focus involved music, an area I have always noted as being unconfident in and unsure of myself within the …
Our penultimate week of arts has arrived, with a bank of knowledge already in the bag and more to learn over 2 weeks. Personally, I can see the creative benefits in my level of confidence in the arts and also as a whole human being. Our first input of learning focused on creative dance, and …
As this module is growing to a close, I can identify the confidence growing within and feeling more creative when it comes to thinking of new ideas within each art form. With that, it is also empowering me as a teacher with techniques and approaches to use in my own classroom environment in the future. …
Today I got my first experience of dance, learning about its use within a classroom was an exciting opportunity to get. Firstly, nerves of peers watching began to filter in, my confidence levels were low leading me to become unsure of ways to incorporate it into school-based learning. Identifying how dance can be incorporated into …
Exploring creativity within art is important, with us as teachers to discuss it but also within our classrooms it is vital, we have discussions about it. “Professional reflection is central to the development of new awareness, knowledge and value shifts which lead to more effective practices in arts teaching.” (Harland, et al., 2005) In the …
Within integrated art this week we got to listen to Norwegian students and hear their experiences of teaching in a different country which led to incorporating a northern perspective on art within our inputs this week. As our visual arts workshop in the afternoon was going to be outside we focused on the creation of an …
Being half-way through this module, I can see my skills widening and my acknowledgement of the arts within primary schools being a vital area of teaching, becoming more enabled to the interconnections being made through-out, to other areas of the arts but also to the wider curriculum. Sometimes the arts don’t overlap and that is …
This week we began our learning for music, an area I haven’t had a lot of experience with of recent. Leading to not much confidence in this topic area, which I put down to my earliest experiences in primary, where I didn’t get chosen for doing things like the violin. However, I do want to learn …
Hearing the word microteaching opened a lot of nervous energy at first but once I started working on it, it let me be a critical, creative thinker to develop a lesson plan. Plus getting to use collaborative skills with my team enabled me to not only develop a lesson but develop myself. Microteaching is a …
This week in visual arts we explored ‘Room 13.’ This was in a primary school for children to be enabled to manage their own learning within the arts. This is all done as a social enterprise by the school, as they make money from doing their own school photographs. The children are put at the …
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