Last night we had some good discussions around reflection, reflection-in-action, reflection-on-action, using reflection as a tool for our continued professional development. As module one is centred around your engagement with reflective theories and the relationship these have with your practice conversations bought in the need to question your practice through reflection and to challenge your own learning. Jessica offered the idea that we are in coversation with ourself in this process. Stella and others spoke of the shifts they felt in their practice, and seeing learning as a process.
The focus of the reflective essay in module one is very much on your learning through this module, the start of your MA journey. Allow yourself space now to reflect on this journey of the past 10 weeks...What are the questions that have been raised for you? What is your relationship with the theories you've engaged with? Where are you in your practice, in this MA journey?
Blog your thoughts and comments here and those that were part of the discussion please comment adding your blog address...
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Friday, 15 November 2019
A note on drafts and RPL claims...
A note for some further clarity around the role and purpose of Drafts of work.
Drafts are intended to initiate a feedback dialogue (in person, skype, via email) with your supervisor, they are not usefully used to ask if things are 'right' or sent with an expectation of receiving corrections, by way of a pre-marking opportunity.
Please do receive feedback as an extended discussion of your work.
Often feedback contains prompts for further reading, suggested texts/practitioners to look at, comments regarding the level of critical thinking/analysis in your writing over overly descriptive personal narrative approaches etc.. Feedback comments are not telling you to 'correct' something and re-submit, but more trying to help you to move your thinking and writing on as we see the process of your work developmentally.
With this in mind, when you have received feedback on a draft of work, and please do consider that we are working our way through draft work from all students across the three MA programmes at this point in the term, please take time to read and consider comments made, come back to your supervisor asking to extend the conversation, arrange a skype is you have further thoughts and questions as a result of the feedback, but please try not to send a 2nd draft asking if the work is now correct, or continuous re-drafts up until the submission date.
At MA level we put our trust in you as professional people and see our role as supervisors as guiding you, being a critical friend, promting, pushing your thoughts, challenging sometimes in order for you to develop further. We are not testing you getting things 'right' we are interested in your engagement and curiosity about your own work.
RPL claims:
Those of you currently working on your AOL essays and developing your RPL claims for submission on Monday November 18th, please do make sure you complete the RPL claim sheet as a cover to your claim.
The claim sheet is a really hlepful way for you to identify clearly to us and the Accreditation team at the university what you are making a claim for academic credit for, how you are seeing this claim in the context of your professional practice and within the context of a wider field of practice and scholarship. Please give some thought to your AOL titles, making sure that they are clearly identifying the Area of Learning that you are addressing in that essay, that they refer to the discipline of your practice (ie: 'The use of imagery', would be more effectively stated as 'The use of imagery in teaching classical ballet'). Please do ensure that your AOL titles are not longer than 60 characters in length, if they are this simply delays the process of them being accredited as they will come straight back to us for revision. The claim sheet does have examples to guide you in how and where relevant information should go, please do follow this and don't forget to include your professional practice statement at the top of the form where indicated in order to offer context to the whole RPL claim
The RPL claim sheet is in the Forms and Templates folder on your programme page UniHub.
Drafts are intended to initiate a feedback dialogue (in person, skype, via email) with your supervisor, they are not usefully used to ask if things are 'right' or sent with an expectation of receiving corrections, by way of a pre-marking opportunity.
Please do receive feedback as an extended discussion of your work.
Often feedback contains prompts for further reading, suggested texts/practitioners to look at, comments regarding the level of critical thinking/analysis in your writing over overly descriptive personal narrative approaches etc.. Feedback comments are not telling you to 'correct' something and re-submit, but more trying to help you to move your thinking and writing on as we see the process of your work developmentally.
With this in mind, when you have received feedback on a draft of work, and please do consider that we are working our way through draft work from all students across the three MA programmes at this point in the term, please take time to read and consider comments made, come back to your supervisor asking to extend the conversation, arrange a skype is you have further thoughts and questions as a result of the feedback, but please try not to send a 2nd draft asking if the work is now correct, or continuous re-drafts up until the submission date.
At MA level we put our trust in you as professional people and see our role as supervisors as guiding you, being a critical friend, promting, pushing your thoughts, challenging sometimes in order for you to develop further. We are not testing you getting things 'right' we are interested in your engagement and curiosity about your own work.
RPL claims:
Those of you currently working on your AOL essays and developing your RPL claims for submission on Monday November 18th, please do make sure you complete the RPL claim sheet as a cover to your claim.
The claim sheet is a really hlepful way for you to identify clearly to us and the Accreditation team at the university what you are making a claim for academic credit for, how you are seeing this claim in the context of your professional practice and within the context of a wider field of practice and scholarship. Please give some thought to your AOL titles, making sure that they are clearly identifying the Area of Learning that you are addressing in that essay, that they refer to the discipline of your practice (ie: 'The use of imagery', would be more effectively stated as 'The use of imagery in teaching classical ballet'). Please do ensure that your AOL titles are not longer than 60 characters in length, if they are this simply delays the process of them being accredited as they will come straight back to us for revision. The claim sheet does have examples to guide you in how and where relevant information should go, please do follow this and don't forget to include your professional practice statement at the top of the form where indicated in order to offer context to the whole RPL claim
The RPL claim sheet is in the Forms and Templates folder on your programme page UniHub.
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