Monday was long over due. I feel that if we had done this earlier in the course it would have really helped with my Critical Review. I felt a real sense of achievement from the morning and it felt great to meet BAPPers! Here is the edited version of my Prezi:
http://prezi.com/dhwoyskevt3v/copy-of-body-conditioning-and-training-a-dancer-to-maintain-peak-physicality/
Here are some of my notes to clarify the points I made:
Interviews
Advantages:
· Questions can be explained to avoid misinterpretation
· Answers can be expanded with further questioning
· Can gage positive or negative reactions
· Added a personal approach and encouraged professional networking skills
· Improved communication between myself and my employer
· Answers are more natural rather than researched therefore more opinionated
Disadvantages:
· May be bias and opinions too personal
· Time consuming and hard to arrange with busy professionals
· Note taking and transcribing seemed tedious
· I’m shy and it was really hard to pluck up the courage
Surveys
Advantages
· Ideal for restricted time slots and free
· Easy to collate and analyse
· No location restrictions
· Can collect a small or large amount of data
Disadvantages
· Answers may be misinterpreted
· Hard to collect if the participants are unreliable
· Lazy answers for example one word or hard to understand
Literature
Advantages
· Widely used, stated facts that will be seen by many therefore are to be accurate.
· Already exists
· Can be accessible
· Can be revisited
Disadvantages
· May just be authors opinion
· Can be outdated
· Sometimes specific literature is hard to acquire
· Can be expensive
Observations
Advantages
· Primary Source, first hand information
· Lots of classes to choose from at LCPA
Disadvantages
· Time consuming
· Could be bias or inaccurate for example students varied attendance/punctuality or behaviour maybe unnatural due to being watched
Interview Findings
A. From her experience: Pilates mat work. High level of demonstration. Anatomy teaching advised. Strict attitude as a teacher to motivate.
B. Thinks he should have had a better training regime. As injury meant that dancing job was affected. Swings are not always available.
C. Her training regime was aimed at body composition maintaining fat percentage, her image was important for her. Which is also a huge factor…
D. Eating healthy. Pilates principles—breathing. Need to support dance technique. To aid injury prevention. Imbalance is caused by the dancers having a preferred side or foot to work from - this amongst other factors needs addressing.
2 others:
Another dancer and a dancer turned personal trainer.
Observation Categories
Cardiovascular Fitness: 1-Struggles to perform choreography due to lack of stamina -heart and lung capacity.
10 -Easily performing all exercises and dance combinations in class
without visible fatigue.
Muscular Strength/Power: 1-Struggles to leap higher than the ballet barre when performing a leap.
10- Far exceeds the height of the ballet barre when performing a leap.
Muscular Endurance:1-Struggles to balance in extensions. 10-Finds it easy to balance in extensions.
Flexibility: 1- Struggles to perform the splits.
10- Easily perform the splits.
Postural Alignment: 1—Bad Posture and alignment.
10- Excellent Posture and alignment
Critical Reflection
· Keeping up to date with skills and methods out there.
· Continue research.
· Communicate frequently using Web 2 tools and online networks.
· Add a standardises fitness test and assessment every term.
· Keep up communication between peers.
· Implementing recommendations in the advice I give.
As predicted anatomy and physiology will be a part of the course as the BTEC diploma will be introduced, however the Course Director endorses my involvement in teaching the Anatomy and Physiology with methods/skills I have learnt through my Inquiry.
I had great fun creating this and found I really got to grips with the processes I went through this year. I feel I have learnt a lot and that there is still so more to come now I have found my niche in the workplace.
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