MA Dance Pedagogy

Hi everyone - I already had my blog up and running from my undergrad so these posts have been a bit backwards apologies! My name is Chrissie, I am currently working part time as a dance and vocal lecturer at a Southampton based college and the rest of the time I work as a Health Practitioner at a cardiovascular prevention service. I trained professionally at The Hammond School of Dance where I disciplined in Musical theatre, various dance styles, acting and singing. I have taught freelance dance and fitness classes for many years and have taught adults up to 60 and children from pre primary. I have worked with specialist population groups and vulnerable adults, and children with autism. I have worked in community centres, colleges, schools, universities and dance centres, each with its own unique learning experience for me. I did my undergrad distance learning at Middlesex and I really struggled with it until the last module we did. I did not do well at engaging in blogs and ke...

Just had a quick look through the claims to prior learning handbook and found a good blog of Helen's from last year, read it here.... http://helenkindred.blogspot.com/2017/09/ I think this module will be a lot about where I am right now and how my past experiences have got me here. From this I thought I'd start by creating a little mind map of what I've been part of during my dance journey. It actually made me feel really proud of everything I've achieved so far as a dance teacher. The course start has also come at a time when I've been offered my first work as a dance lecturer at a college too. So I'm very excited to use what I learn during my teaching in my MA studies. I have come to realise that outcomes don't necessarily have to be used to verify you as a person and what value to bring to jobs/studies/family/friends/anything in life. But it is hard to remember this sometimes. Tomorrow I'm running my first half marathon and I'm real...

We just had our introductory chat on Skype to start the term off. It was good to familiarise myself with Myunihub again and to go through the basics. Something new I've learnt... if the text book you want from Middlesex library isn't available as an online textbook, it can be arranged that the book is posted to you on loan! Brilliant. I finished my undergrad in January so I feel like I have had a big gap in learning but I'm keen to start reading our module handbooks and to start making notes... I always like my handbooks to printed off so I can highlight and annotate on paper... anyone else find this? I start my new job in a few weeks as a dance teacher at a college as well, and along with new housemates, a new haircut and the MA starting, my brain is at full capacity for 'change'. But I'm looking forward to utilising a study plan as that's definitely something I lacked in during my undergrad. How do you all see your pattern for studying working? It wi...