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When all your time is given to your pupils…

When all your time is given to your pupils…

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This week I am preparing my pupils for their exams by marking written work, providing performance feedback, rehearsing group choreography whilst providing guidance and pastoral support. Every spare minute is put into coursework and during this period many pupils exhibit challenging behaviour. Careful assessment of words like my post from Block 2 or observation of behaviour is implemented to ensure appropriate support. Interventions through direct teaching and working within a carefully constructed social (dance) environment, behaviour can be influenced or changed as part of a learning process. My role as a teacher means that I am liked, disliked, challenged, supported, respected, ignored and tested. It happens at different times and in different ways. I need to be assertive at all times. I need to read my pupils and understand their personalities and what motivates them. However, to do this I need to ensure that I know my limits and stay controlled and positive. Unfortunately, I have found my personal needs, blog and course research neglected as I become consumed by Higher Dance.

 

Have we lost respect and become self involved by the culture of ‘selfies’?

Have we lost respect and become self involved by the culture of ‘selfies’?

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Holocaust + Selfie Culture = 'Yolocaust'

Selfies and yoga poses are not the way to honor the memory of 6 million dead Jews.

Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, 7 March 2017

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This Facebook post caught my attention as it highlights the extent to which individuals have let their addiction to recording their every moment on smartphones. We have become a culture that explores, experience and captures life through a lens to record the memory rather than be present in that particular moment of time and space. All in the attempt to create a post or an image via social media that may attract a high volume of ‘likes’ and validation from followers. The selfie phenomenon has made us ignorant to our surroundings. Here the post describes why selfies and yoga poses are not the way to honor the memory of 6 million dead Jews. #mscedc

When you go to the shops and come back with a whole lot more….

When you go to the shops and come back with a whole lot more….

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In the run up to the Digital Dance season at Scottish Ballet I managed to prepare with a ‘Virtual Reality Scope’. I have been researching movement available online and observing 360 degree videos through holding my smartphone with the use of my extremities. I am excited to try this device out as my visual stimulus will provide information and full body function and kinaesthetic learning.

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The premiere of “The Perfect Place’ is exciting in that I can enjoy the duet from the comfort of my own home. I have been a frequent member of the audience since I was a teenager. I always appreciate the value of  ‘live’ performance as it can be inspiring for young dancers whilst entertaining and exhilirating  for the novice or amateur dancer. Every year I take my pupils to experience live dance, as it allows them to appreciate the technique and qualities of the performer and the complex analysis of the choreography. While in the audience your body responds to the music and movement of the dancers. Your muscles twitch as muscle memory or inner creativity wants to take over but you are restrained by the chairs and the environment of the theatre. However, in the comfort of your own home you can perform alongside the dancers or indulge in the movement as you enjoy in privacy. The dissemination of the repertoire reaches a larger widespread audience as restriction of time, location and personal boundaries are removed.