The MAPP DTP Journey

I've spent a lot of time thinking about my areas of learning this last couple of weeks. Thinking is a large part of this and I often find I lack time to get things down on paper so I've been recording things as voice notes. I find it much easier to record my often scattered thoughts whilst driving (I have an hour commute from home to work.) this seems to be the time when my mind settles on subjects and I can then come back to the ramblings and make more sense of my thoughts. As a result of this I've started to think that time and my management has had a large impact on my career and development to date. I've thought a lot about the how I used my time differently over the years and in different situations and what impact this has had. I find it an interesting topic with a lot of potential layers to it. Time management has had an impact on how I plan, how I deliver a session, create a piece etc. Just thinking of one example: Creating a piece for young people when th...

This is a post I wrote last week that I thought I had published (whoops) so here it is now with another to follow soon. I've been thinking a lot about learning and my reflection this week. I found a lot to think about whilst reading through J.A Moon's book about reflective and experiential learning. She states that " We all reflect and all learning is based on experience." This is a particular quote that has stuck with me, as whilst  I know we all reflect it is not something I take the chance to do on a regular basis. It has been nice to start to do this as part of the MA and the developments for me that will come from this are vast. I have already begun to see a different awareness in how I am communicating, what I am teaching and the learning both myself and the students undertake. Throughout the classes I have taught this week I have been trying to get my students to reflect and find their own way of moving as well as giving material I have taught them their ow...