January 18, 2019
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Comments Off on Reflective Practice
In today’s lecture I have learned that is important to consider the consequences of my own actions and the role in which I have played in an incident rather to jump to conclusions and blame everybody else first. I feel that this was important to learn because it has taught me to realise that not […] Continue reading
January 18, 2019
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Comments Off on Relationships To Primary Practitioners
Relationships are vital to our future profession as they determine the success rates of our learners. The children who come into our class have brains developed by the relationships they have with the people around them. The child’s brain is very flexible and so can learn to survive in different situations/learn different languages. However, the […] Continue reading
January 18, 2019
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Comments Off on Reflective Learning
I am beginning to fully understand how being a teacher is a constant learning and development process that never ends. For our entire careers, we must constantly reflect on and evaluate our practice so that we are the best we can be for our children. For this to succeed we need to have an adaptable …
January 18, 2019
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Comments Off on Expressive Arts- Exploring Drama
After our first drama session we watched a short video on a lesson plan created and run through with teachers as the pupils. It was obvious that the lesson planned was very well-structured. I think that this particular lesson plan can be adapted to cover certain Experiences and Outcomes in the Curriculum for Excellence, depending […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on Reflecting on Dance Workshop 1
This lesson pushed me out of my comfort zone as I was interacting with people whom I hadn’t before. For some children this may also be the case but I can see that it would build their confidence as throughout the lesson everyone became more comfortable with one another. I was put in the pupils’ […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on A Lesson On Drama
For our first drama input we were set a task to watch a short video clip and think about this in relation to our own practice along with a set of questions. Throughout this clip the lesson structure was made evident. Agreement – warm up – provide stimulus – development of ideas – visualisation – […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on stereotypes
With a great focus on freeing children from the various stereotypes that face us within , I find it to be one of the biggest challenges that I have faced since embarking on this journey from Secondary school to University. At multiple points during the values module and both pedagogy modules. It has been highlighted […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on Dance… the benefits beyond the body
“Dance??!!?” I exclaimed with great surprise once my fellow course mates revealed our next workshop. Unlike drama, PE and music, this was a subject area I had never delved into too much (in an educational and purposeful manner) before attending university. Like many others similar to myself who have just left secondary school, with the […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on Dance is Diverse
Going into this dance workshop I was nervous- to say the least. It was my first workshop this semester, therefore didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know whether we were going to have to learn and perform a dance routine or learn dance steps and moves that we could teach the class. On reflection, […] Continue reading
January 15, 2019
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Comments Off on Early Relationships and Their Impact
Michelle Cassidy’s input on the importance of relationships, Dr Suzanne Zeedyk’s video and John Carnochan’s video have all contributed to my understanding of how young children must be given the right environment to properly develop into responsible members of society. According to Carnochan, the most important years of a child’s life are from 0-3 years […] Continue reading
January 15, 2019
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Comments Off on The Health and Wellbeing of the Child is Crucial to Development- Reflection
After watching both Suzanne Zeedyk and John Carnocha’s videos about the brain development of children in their early years, it made me understand even more just how important it is that we as practitioners do everything in our power to promote positivity into every child’s life. It was particularly eye opening for me to understand […] Continue reading
January 15, 2019
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Comments Off on Teaching Across the Curriculum – Health and Wellbeing
As part of the health and wellbeing inputs I have watched some videos surrounding early years development and relationship building. The first video discussed how babies brains are very flexible in the fist stage of their life and the experiences they have here shape what kind of pathways are made in their brain for their […] Continue reading
January 15, 2019
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Comments Off on The Brains of the Classroom
Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk’s and John Carnochan OBE’s videos by Education Scotland, empathise the need to create safe environments, to nurture and aid children to be able to deal with and contribute to society today. Dr Zeedyk’s describes the neuroscience behind the brains development and explains how easy it is for young people to cope with […] Continue reading
January 14, 2019
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Comments Off on Comment on Dance can be for Everyone! by Richard Holme
What an insightful post. The conclusion encouraged me to reflect on when I taught dance with a P2 class and used extracts from the Billy Elliot stage show to encourage the class. It halped my confidence and that of the learners. Dance certainly is for everyone. This post is really well written. Have you thought about sharing these more widely? Thanks for sharing! Continue reading
January 13, 2019
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Comments Off on Learning Language- My Experience
Language was an area of the curriculum that I really enjoyed when I was in school. It is an extremely important area of the curriculum as it is a way of expressing ourselves and a key way for us to learn. There are four areas of language: writing, reading, speaking and listening. When I was […] Continue reading
January 13, 2019
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Comments Off on Making Dance Personal
Dancing is definitely not one of my strong points – sure I’ll dance around to music I like, but dancing on a professional level, I cannot do. I used to be told that the noises I made thumping around while dancing could be compared to those of an elephant running in a herd. Anyway, when I […] Continue reading
January 13, 2019
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Comments Off on Initial Professional Goals
It is the end of my first week back to university and prior to my first placement I have been looking into the Standards For Provisional Registration (SPR). Looking into the standards has helped me to make some initial decisions on my first placement goals. I have taken into consideration different types of goals for […] Continue reading
January 12, 2019
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Comments Off on workload wages and woe
In 2015 I decided i was going to write my Higher portfolio piece about a group of professionals i believed to be hugely undervalued by society….. teachers. i wanted my teachers especially Miss Duncan to see how much i valued everything that they did not only for me but everyone at the school. So here […] Continue reading
January 12, 2019
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Comments Off on Dance Workshop Reflection
Before today’s workshop I was nervous at the thought of having to teach dance to a class, as I was unsure where to begin or how to work in a manageable way. I was also apprehensive about the dance input, and concerned I might be asked to create some complicated choreography and perform in front […] Continue reading
January 11, 2019
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Comments Off on Reflecting on our Dance workshop
Our first input for “Teaching across the curriculum” for Expressive Arts was a workshop with Eilidh Slattery. Before going in I did feel nervous as to what we would be tasked with however I felt I had at least an idea of dance within the classroom. My previous work experiences have involved a lot of […] Continue reading
