Task 5a: Workplace ethics

For this task we have to think about ethics that apply to our workplace and the dance community. This turned out to be harder than expected because most of it is common sense, therefore it took longer to consider that aswell. Here are a few points I came up with so far:

• No stealing

• No racism - everybody no matter what religion/ethnicity he or she is has to be treated equally

• Copyright - make sure you have the right to use music, film material, sheet music

• No bullying - both from teachers aswell as children

• Professional conduct - in college that would be f.i. No student - teacher relationships;                  - within a workplace it would mean to behave professionally and like an employee/student towards choreographers/teachers even though you're friends outside the dance studio

I think most of these are common sense so when it actually comes to writing down paper what we should actually be thinking about ethically, it's hard forus to do so. Those are only a few of many ethics that have to be considered in a workplace.

Ideas, ideas!!

I just can't seem to decide on my final inquiry question/topic!!

Everytime I think I've got it I seem to come up with different ideas and questions. 

BUT I think I (finally) found my topic for ma inquiry:

What defines a good dance teacher?

What do you guys think about that? I would hugely appreciate any feedback because, to be honest, I am freaking out a bit here because everybody seems to be working ontheir inquiries!

PLEASE, if you've got some spare time, let me know what you' re thinking, I'll definitely return. The favour ;)! 

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Task 4d: Award Title

I've been thinking about this for while since I think this will identify my professional practice.

At the moment I have a couple of 'options' for an award title:

• BA Hons Professional Practice Performing Arts

-> To be honest I do feel like this particular title is pretty general and broad which was also the reason for chosing it. I'm not sure whether i would like a more specific award title which shows deeper knowledge in one specific area.

• BA Hons Professional Practice Dance

-> This was the first one I came up with because that was were my professional training was in. I think this one would probably be the most accurate one in regards to my previous training. Although thinking about my future and the possibility of me becoming a full-time teacher I would probably have to reconsider it.

• BA Hons Professional Practice Dance Education

-> Thinking about a career as a dance teacher this one would definitely be the best suited title. The reason I'm not entirely sure about chosing this is award title is that I still want to dance before actually getting my hands on teaching. 

A the moment, this are the 3 award titles I'm toying with. I'll definitely have to think about my definte award title for a while. I would appraciate any comments, suggestions, etc. :) 

Task 4a: Decisions, Decisions!!

For the past week I was trying to get my head around, what to do for my inquiry.
I came up with a couple of topics that I find very interesting:

• health and nutrition
• influence of teachers
• injuries
• transition from performer to teacher
• different learning styles

I find it hard to decide purely because we'll have to stick to the theme/ topic we use for quite a while. Therefore it has be chosen wisely!!!

The two topics that interest me the most are injuries and teachers and their influence on students.
After talking to co-workers, students, etc. I came up with a couple of questions:

1. How important is a good student/teacher relationship in regards to the learning success of the student?
2. What needs to be improved on and how can teachers help students in order for them to pursue dance as their professional practice?
3. How important is good technique in order to prevent injuries at a later stage?
4. What are the key elements for injury prevention?

Personally, at the moment I feel most interested in question 2.) because the dance school I teach, a couple of girls are toying with the idea of going abroad and studying dance or musical theatre.

Please let me know any thoughts any ideas you have. I promise I'll try to help out and reply to the best of my abilities ;)!