MA Dance Pedagogy

Hi all, hope you had good Christmases and New Years and some well deserved time off thinking. I've had a rather bizarre start of not really feeling I want to continue with the MA. I'm not entirely sure where it came from, I had a difficult time at a college I taught at up until Christmas and I think its really made me question what I want in my future. After lots of talking it through with various people I decided I wasn't going to do it. At the moment my work is mainly related to health, exercise and well being so it just wasn't sitting right with me to talk entirely about teaching. I spoke to Helen about it and she recommended I move across to the Dance specialism MA, where I could focus in on those things and interlink them with dance. I've made the move and I'm much more excited about the research prospects than I was previously. However I still don't think I'm entirely out the water here. Reading through the module 2 handbook has made me rea...

My Ballet Fitness class on Monday had 6 people in attendance. On reflection my advertising scheme has been to offer a trial class for free and over the past few months I have probably lost over £100 due to people who just come for one class. I think although I enjoy people being able to trial the class I do need to try and make a profit. This does come into my ethical considerations as I believe people should be able to try classes for free to encourage them to exercise. But I have to be professional and remember if I don't make any money I won't be able to provide any classes at all. And my classes are always to a professional standard and I believe they are worth the money every time. This week I did a track list based loosely on Halloween. I always try and change the class music and exercises each week to keep things interesting. Before the class a girl did mention she didn't buy into Halloween and I was slightly worried she wouldn't enjoy the class but she did lat...