Task 4a- Intial Thoughts

Reader 4 Initial Thoughts

So after reading the reader 4 I was very confused, so confused I had to read it through again to fully understand it. But what truly clarified what this reader and the module was about, was talking to my tutor Adesola. I knew that the next module was about creating an inquiry into your professional practise. As I am a learning support assistant for early year’s children, I have previously touched base briefly in Module 1 on how everyone learns differently. Looking into Howard Gardner’s theories of different learners. From this discussion with Adesola, I had a concrete idea of what I wanted to investigate within my professional practise.

Inquiry- Are the skills/techniques learnt from a performing arts background transferable and beneficial into an early year’s classroom?

This was a good starting point, but I learnt from the group skype session with Adesola that one main inquiry would be too limiting and that you had to have branch questions as well, that still link back to your initial inquiry.

So my branch inquiries are –

1.       If the classroom teacher/LSA implement performing techniques while teaching, does this advantage or disadvantage the children’s learning?

2.       How important is the arts in formal education and how important are they in a child’s personable development?

3.       Are the artistic techniques aided to teach in the classroom seen as a way of persuasion or coercion?

These branch questions are still very broad to each other, however they all link back to the main Hypothesis/Inquiry. From being an LSA for almost a year now, every day I am learning something new and questioning different techniques. I was surprised when first starting off all the interlinks I was finding was with my performing arts background. Please comment below, I would love to find out if anyone else has a similar inquiry.

Thanks for reading.

Cassie V.