7a CHANGES TO MY INQUIRY

After a long chat with Paula and great feedback from Rosemary I have looked at my Professional inquiry and made changes that I hope will make my Inquiry clearer.    https://docs.google.com.
Would value feedback about my new revised plan:)
Betty xxxx

Encouraging the Boys

http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/videos/lazy-boys

'Boys don't Dance' an inspirational video

Fantastic video - showing an inspirational teacher - motivating boys to dance.  It is exactly what I've been looking at.
In the beginning of my inquiry I had a discussion with a P.E. teacher who filled her after school class by just changing the title from boys gymnastics to free running and this formed the basis of my inquiry and subsequent research.
I've copied the link for other BAPP Students

.http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/videos/ks3-ks4-dance-boy-you-can-dance

Artefact?...

Artefact? What is an artefact?

1. Something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art.

2. Anything man-made, such as a spurious experimental result.

I believe an artefact is a great way to support the research I have carried out in previous modules. By definition I want it to be a creative tool (and hopefully a work of art that can be used by fellow teachers).  It is an inventive way of culminating all the work I've done to date. I enjoy being creative and I am looking forward to watching my artefact take shape.

The vision is to create a video/montage of advice, strategies and approaches to dealing with the learning needs of boys from teachers themselves. Through my research I have discovered that tips, advice and strategies specifically aimed at teaching boys are rare and I think it would be an incredibly useful tool to have for new teachers like myself.

I have several willing volunteers; experienced teachers and newly qualified teachers from main stream education, along with dance and performing arts teachers. I believe it will be interesting to have opinions, ideas, strategies from all teachers and I am already curious to see if there are correlations between subjects and strategies.

My artefact is in it's infancy and I am currently exploring some of the different approaches I could use to shaping the piece. I am considering interviewing my teachers, then editing and extracting relevant information and designing a montage using clips from the video interviews.  

I envisage my artefact to be a piece of art that will work alongside and be a compliment to my inquiry.

I have lots of research, planning and interviews ahead and I am extremely excited to develop my inquiry further!

Please feel free to comment, I am interested to see what my fellow BAPPers think about my artefact proposal:)

Betty x