Help needed to crack the coding!!

My lovely dance students much to my amazement filled in the evaluation forms, only needing a minor Haribo bribe to complete them.

Was very emotional reading the comments, have never asked anyone to evaluate my teaching before and children are so amazingly honest. Lots of good suggestions i.e.'I want to feel more out of breath' and 'would like more explanations as to why we do the excercises'. Valuable feedback that I shall reflect and act upon.

Now I have all evaluation forms I am researching ways of presenting the data gathered.
I am about to conduct my interviewing and wondered if anyone could advise any articles or books on coding as I really don't know where to start analysing my interviews.

Thanks

Betty x

Moving on with Module 3......

I thought I would just write a quick blog to update where I am up to with module 3.

Planned Intervention  

Following a very productive meeting with my employer we have agreed a plan that will hopefully cause the least disruption to my dance classes.  He is supportive of my inquiry and is satisfied that my intervention will not be to the detriment of the girls

9th November - Observation lesson. I have arranged for a teacher to carry out an observation of the lesson and make notes on my teaching styles and techniques prior to my intended intervention.  The same teacher has agreed to observe my classes after 3 weeks of trialling my researched motivational  strategies aimed at boys.  I am looking forward to receiving feedback on my observation and will blog the findings.

At the start of the lesson I am going to explain briefly to the Students that I have an observer in the class who will be assessing my teaching skills and making notes during the warm-up session of the class. I am also going to inform them of the changes I will be making to the warm-up section of the class over the coming weeks and will ask for their help in evaluating these changes. 

 I have designed an evaluation form for the Student identifiable only by gender and age. I feel it is important that the Students feel involved and that their contribution is valued. evaluation form 

Interviews with Teachers

I have identified several willing volunteers who have agreed to be videoed  interviewed, I am just in the process of devising questions that will give me the most appropriate data for my inquiry.  I am behind schedule with this part of my inquiry, but due to participants commitments I have to fit the interviews in around participants work schedules etc.  This is an important part of my research so I will need to adjust my original plan to incorporate these interviews.

Literature Review

I am in the process of analysing all the literature I have collected.  I am struggling with this part of my inquiry as I have so much information to process.  I am reading through each piece and making notes on each article and its relevance to my inquiry.

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

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!

Hope everyone has had a great summer:)
I've just registered for student finance for this year and enrolled for the final module (hopefully).
So now it's back to reality, just hoping that I can keep focused.
The dream is to be a great Teacher and as corny as it sounds to 'make a difference', that's my motivation.
Good luck everyone, lets do this:)