Monday, April 6, 2009

Pedagogy

So I pulled an all-nighter last night in order to write my pedagogy paper. I had a while to write this but just couldn't find the time so it ended up coming down to a last minute thing.
Pedagogy, for anyone that doesn't know, is the art of teaching. So we are taught how to teach dance in this class. Our paper was a minimum of 12 pages (mine ended up being 26 pages) and was the business plan for a studio we were "opening". In it we had to include a studio name, our philosophy, a table of contents, our rules, our floor plans/studio space, all of the ballet terminology we learned thus far and how to properly teach it, as well as a complete syllabus for level one ballet dancers (age 8) from Sept to May and the summer months. It was not exactly hard, just extremely tedious. I am happy with how it came out. The assignment definitely was interesting but fun and I now know I never want to teach ballet in my life. No thank you. : )

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