Module 1 Session 3 BAPP ArtsProfessional NetworkingCritical Reflection

Paula Nottingham 20/11/16

What would you like to cover in the session?

1. Professional Networking

Ideas from Reader 3What is happening that you can relate to in your work?How networking relates to reflective practice?

2. Critical Reflection written summary and supporting evidence?

What do I need to do? How do I write it?

3. Part 3 for older qualifications – do I need to do this?

A good article about professionalism – look at the Model A and Model B types toward the end to think about what type of professional you want to be…http://www.sld.demon.co.uk/profnal.pdfStan Lester ‘On professions and being professionalStan Lester Developments, Taunton, UK This version June 2010.

People talked about having separate places for professional and personal

BAPP Arts – how is it a network?: How is it sustained? ?

http://wenger-trayner.com/resources/slide-forms-of-participation/

Lave and Wenger, Wenger

Did you use any ideas from Lave and Wenger ?

https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/active-learning-classroom/community-of-practice/

Lave and Wenger, Wenger

Did you use any ideas from Wenger ?

Example of planning your communities of practice

How would you define your professional network?

Putting it all together for your Critical Reflection

What ideas interested you from the 3 parts?

How do these relate to the ideas your have as an artist?How would you define your arts practice?

What do you want to say about your learning during this period of time?

Did any of these ideas help you change your practice?

How have the sample ideas presented frame your thinking about your practice?

Module 1 playlist - ideas from all three parts – who can you hear the loudest – think iTunes? How are you using the ideas to ‘theorise’ your practice?

Networking

Communication

Reflection

Brainstorm the important ideas you had during Module 1 - these are the points to add to your reflection.

http://www.tootingartsclub.co.uk/projects/sweeney-todd/

What do your art sources look like? This is linked to a story about the actor Rachel Edwards who started this production..

https://www.facebook.com/Rites-of-Passage-dance-and-arts-based-leadership-development-programmes-284771458392788/

You can put screen shots and pdfs in the appendices to show examples and can hyperlink to videos in your text or appendices or upload as separate files

The idea is to synthesis the important points that made you think about you practice in Module 1.

The best advice is to compose the Critical Reflection synthesis the three main themes – notes on how you might do this are in the Handbook.

You can add references (citations and a Bibliography) to show where you got the ideas, you can add hyperlinks to the text to link your blogs, you can add important details and explanation in the appendices (so important blogs can be cut and pasted, journal extracts, other pieces of evidence to illustrate practice. Send this for feedback from your tutor

Part 3 for older qualifications ONLY!

Think about a report - this is ‘in the style of’ but you can also add audio-visual and visual files to your portfolio if they do not fit into this format.

Submit your draft to your tutor for written feedback.

Remember it is a creative process so work on a rough draft – SAVE AS version 2 – send this one – then have a tutorial with your tutor afterwards if you need to discuss…

Communicte in images and audio visual as well as text where appropriate.

1000 – 10% over allowed so 1100 wordcount...put extra things you need beyond this summary in your appendices – yoiur tutor feedback will help

Best advice – write about what you are passionate about!