Present moment - AOL's

Hi all,

So here's my Areas of Learning list as it stands so far. I've been brainstorming and mapping out each one to some extent but I'll just give a quick overview here:

• Dance in HE: teaching theory through practice, developing resources, working with colleagues, assessment, using virtual learning tools, working relationships with students, giving feedback, planning modules, teaching technique, choreography, improvisation, fundamental teaching skills. 
• Dance for Children and Young People: in the curriculum (primary and secondary), learning through creative movement, choreographing for youth companies, working with boys
• Contemporary Techniques: trends in training, methods, Limon/release, gaga, aerial dance, imagery and musicality
• The teaching persona: physicality (being a 'model'), pregnancy, psychology and personality in teaching
• The independent dance artist: continuous development, job creation, funding, projects and commissions, versatility, collaborations, managing projects, profile, devising. 
• integrating pilates and somatic approaches in dance training: in teaching, experiential anatomy, injury prevention, my own training experience and practice, safe practice, modifying for different participants
• Working in integrated dance
• Versatility in performance: drawing on my work with a range of choreographers 

Helpful Skype chat with Adesola, Amber and Jamie this morning. I realised that while I seem to be able to reflect at  length on my work and what I actually do day to day in the studio and with students, I find it difficult to hone in on my thoughts and feelings about my own learning process on this module! It is still early days I know.  

Perhaps looking outwards is somehow easier for me then recognising my internal/individual process. It could be a case of familiarity with thinking about work but not with thinking about thinking! I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone else!  

It feels like I have to work on this before I will be able to connect the two kinds of reflective process.

Thanks for everyone's questions (and answers) today, they brought quite a few things into focus for me, including making mental processes explicit and making links between journal entries, blog posts, CV's and reading.

Speak soon