Emily Richards BAPP Blog

Task A Requires us to look back through reader 4 and develop a set of points I wonder about that are relevant in my practice. At the moment I am also studying for my Diploma in Dance Education alongside my teaching work. For my Diploma I have just had to write an essay where you need to ask a question that relates to a specific dance genre and research different arguments to come to a conclusion. As I have been spending the past few weeks on this essay, this is something I have been ' wondering ' about a lot. Reader 4 talks a lot about knowledge in the work place and as a dance teacher it is very important to be knowledgeable about the health advantages and disadvantages dance can have on my pupils. I intend from expanding on my knowledge to apply everything i have learned in order to reduce the possibilities of any of my pupils experiencing any disadvantages and getting as many benefits from dancing as possible. The question I decided to ask for my essay and my

Before the Skype call I felt as though a lifetime had passed since module one, however just a few minutes into the call I remembered the feelings and the process and it soon felt as though no time had passed at all. I felt the call was very productive in many ways; Discussing blogs How this is something some of us may need to do more. How some of us had been a little less active in communicating with others through their blogs and that this could be something to improve upon. We also discussed how some of us had issues following and seeing other peoples blogs, before this I thought I was on my own and just simply didn't understand how blogger worked, so it was great to hear it wasn't just me and since then I have (hopefully) successfully followed some more of my peers. Getting into a routine How some of our lives may be different from in the previous modules and how this may impact our study; some had changed jobs within the same area (moving from one school to

After having nearly three months since submitting my first assignment and receiving a mark I am really pleased with I can look back on the experience of module one very positively. I was really nervous with the results day looming and if i'm being honest I didn't find the process of finding the results very easy. However once I finally figured it out, with the help of fellow BAPP students, I was pleasantly surprised and really pleased with my results. It was mentioned within my feedback how my appendices were well presented. I struggled at the time writing my Critical Reflection with writing the appendices, as this wasn't something I had ever done before. I found that I had almost the same amount of words in my appendices, as I did in the main body of the critical reflection, so I was pleased to see that despite having lots of content in them, this was a positive area in my feedback. I intend to continue to develop my formal writing style as I continue through module