To think outside the box, first you must have the box 📦


Unfortunately I was unable to make the last Skype discussion call but was kindly sent the recording. I have seen a better communication in understanding and improving my writing since starting the MAPP. My grammar and the way I say things have improved through the help of having ‘ClaroRead’. Listening back to a computer read my essays I realise my writing is grammarless and blunt. Having it read back puts some personality and life into my writing that I can then be the reader and see if I fully understand myself. As I type now you will notice no commas nothing. So although improvement is happening it is very much aided but still gets the job done.

After listening to the call David’s box really resonated with me. I feel in my teaching I think outside the box and sometimes have to make fast on the spot decisions. Through writing about our practise there is more planning involved and the ‘box’ is a more calmer environment to explore outside of it. Through writing the AOL’s I have realised that what I know and say has broader topics to further challenge and investigate. This has then made my AOL’s grow and develop into something I hadn’t originally thought of or was even aware of.



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  1. Linda Colligan28 April 2019 at 06:21

    Really great to hear your confidence grow in yourself. It is so hard to strip yourself bare and feel vulnerable in your writing on this course. We instinctively teach, choreograph and direct and mentor our students, but find it so hard talking about our work and our learning.
    You seem to really be on track! Are you almost finished now and can I ask what the headings are for your AOLs? Mine are Standards in Dance Education, Dancing in a Foreign Company and Choreographing a Musical. I wanted to cover the areas I felt meant most to me in my growth as a Dancer, Teacher and choreographer.
    Sincerely
    Linda

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