Task 3C - 5 Sources

I decided to work out which sources I find most useful by putting a spider diagram together to arrange them into importance.


I decided to go with the below sources as I feel they were more suited and were more important to me in my line of Practise.

1. CDTA - This is a committee set up by the Hertfordshire Dance/Performing arts teachers from the local schools we meet at every chance we can we find it hard to meet up as we are busy but this really is important to me. We as a group of teachers use each other’s recourses, take ideas for Schemes of Work from one other. We also discuss ideas for choreography. Every year the committee put together the Hertfordshire Dance Festival where the Secondary, Primary and other schools who have learning difficulties will get together over 2 days and celebrate dance that going on in the schools. This day makes me so happy when I look back on the last 2 I have been involved in just shows how inspiring dance and the performing arts can be to so many different children. Children with disabilities, children from a bad upbringing and children from a wealthy upbringing. It really shows how this can bring communities together.

2. GOOGLE - This for me is one of the biggest sources I use in day to day practise I use this source to research practitioners, different styles, drama techniques that I may not be confident in. For me this has helped me with so much of my professional Practise being able to go online and type in a sentence about the performing arts and it will give me a suggestion or a link to another page that would help me. This has also helped me with getting recourses together for my Dance classes that I teach. This has also helped me expand my outside Business of teaching Zumba as soon as you type my name into Google it comes up with that I am a Zumba instructor in Hertfordshire. It's great advertisement and its free!!. Google brings me on to my next Source.

3. YouTube - This site has been my saviour some days. This source has inspired me to look up new practitioners I have so many aspirations to dance and choreograph like some of the choreographers on this channels. I have my own account and like to save the best Dance channels to my account for me this really helps me choreograph for my lessons at school. Sometimes I get stuck so for a bit of motivation and Inspiration I look up choreography for example my strength in dance is street but my weakness is Contemporary choreographing it- so I look up contemporary dances and it allows me to access so many different choreography’s. YouTube- May sometimes has a copyright issue but I really never copy the whole choreography and I always just take tips from different channels.

4. CPSD - At school with CPSD sessions that run every Thursday after school. These are so interesting and helpful they really help me in development of my professional practise. You maybe were wondering what these sessions consist of. They are basically ran by different members of staff in the school where we share good practise and beneficial Teaching and Learning points. So every week we have a different session we can go to. I recently went to one based on Engaging boys now doing dance in KS3 is really hard as you can understand the boys engagement is far and in between. So the Music teacher delivered an excellent Session on engaging boys and how we can do it with our own 10 ten tips for doing this great easy to follow and had really interesting points which I have actually used within my classroom and are actually working.

5. CAMPUS SESSIONS- This has to be one of the most important recourse for me as this allows me to develop as a practitioner in the professional world. I am really enjoying going to these sessions it helps me improve my speaking and listening skills that I need as a teacher and a student. It inspires me to see the Module 2 and 3 students and how they are doing on the course and where we will be as students in a year’s time. But also just get inspired and motivated for what I really want to do. Alan has been a great motivator as he has allowed us to have ownership on our own practise without being told me where to go and how to do it. It's your knowledge that you already know and putting it into practise.

Doing this has really proved to me that we use so many sources in a day to day professional life and we don't even realise.

Thanks Geri