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Discussion group 17/02

Creativity and Data Sources.  Tonight's zoom call was an interesting discussion to a view from all modules and everyone's inside thoughts of where they are up to with understanding their practice. One of the first discussion points that came up was, areas of learning. It was nice to think back and to see how far I have come throughout studying this course.  When I first started this course I remember not understanding what my areas of learning was or how to even start unpicking them.  The key way I did this was looking at my transferable skills and where I can take my creativity and performing arts skills into other areas of work, which could and would broaden my practice in the future. Other comments that students made about this was, thinking about what your practice has taught you. Thinking of significant moments within your practice that has influenced you. This was an amazing one for me and I was even unaware of it happening. I possibly wouldn't of realised it either w

Module 3 - Start

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I have had a little bit of a whirlwind of a start to module 3.  It started of by me sending off my Teacher Training UCAS application. I got 2 interviews the following day after sending it! for the next week! which happened to be the same week we started back... Juggling all the prep, lesson tasks and academic assessments that I had to do for that along with trying to get a start on module 3 interview questions and feedback form, my brain felt like mush!  HOWEVER... I am happy to announce that come September I will be starting my teacher training on a school direct program, studying primary with SEN!!I am so happy I could burst.  If anyone interested in teaching I found the get into teaching page very useful. https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/explore-my-options/teacher-training-routes/school-led-training/school-direct-salaried?gclid=2f0476d8bb851985802616f5b446e102&gclsrc=3p.ds&msclkid=2f0476d8bb851985802616f5b446e102 Now on to module 3 I plan to start to put my interview

The Danger of a Single Story

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  While reading through the hand book for Module 3, I came across a TED talk around the subject of seeing scenarios from different perspectives. The TED talk was titled “The danger of a single story”.  It was a woman form a middle class family in Nigeria. She talks about how she gained assumptions off people from a young age from reading books from British and American author’s. She believed that people like herself didn’t exist outside her country because there wasn’t books about African women and what they looked like and their back grounds. She also mentioned of her university roommate in America was shocked that she could speak English as she automatically assumed from what she knew of Africa and that she wouldn’t speak English.  She said that “as humans we are very impressionable of what we see, hear and read.” Especially children. What they witness growing up could have an impact of how they see the world as they are older.  I think this is a really interesting point. What though