I hope to collect as much feedback as possible from my colleagues to compile a final set of questions.
Questions for students
1. What is the stimulus for your choreography?
2. Why did you choose this stimulus?
3. What music have you chosen?
4. Why did you decide to use this music?
5. When do you rehearse?
6. How did you select the dancer/dancers for your piece?
7. How has it been working with this/these dancers?
8. What has been difficult about creating your piece?
9. Do you have any particular methods when struggling to create movement?
10. How much input with the movement do you feel your dancers have had?
11. Have you found anything difficult about the rehearsals?
12. Have you found anything difficult about working with the dancers you have chosen?
13. What has been good about working with the dancers you have chosen?
14. What advice would you give to a student about to start this choreography unit?
15. Looking over the process so far, is there anything you would change? Dancers, stimulus, theme etc?
16. Have you enjoyed working on your choreography piece?
Claire we talked about you situation in the school - and your working alongside the teachers and the fact you will be continuing on there for teacher -training. You mentioned that along with the stimulus - you were now becoming more interested in the process - and that does show in these questions. how would you say they relate to the teacher questions? your literature?
ReplyDeletethe questions correspond with the teacher questions. The teachers were asked about how and why students choose stimulus and how to select for students. the students have been asked questions of the same nature in relation to their piece. I haven't found much literature on the selection of stimuli, only guides on different types. So questions about selecting stimuli were very important
ReplyDeleteHi Claire, just wondering how you got on with the analysis of the data collected from both your teachers and students. You mention above that the two sets of questions were meant to correspond with each other, did you therefore find it easier to highlight any re-occurring themes or did any participant data throw up anything you weren't expecting? In terms of my inquiry, student involvement did not extend beyond observing them in lesson and as such, I never had the opportunity to compare their ideas on what affected their motivation/confidence compared to what their teachers thought.
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The questions were different but some corresponded with the teacher ones, For example one of the questions fro teachers was: what do you do when students are lacking in creativity or motivation, and a student question was: what do you do when you are struggling to create movement or stuck for ideas. the answers different but there were some similarities such as: seek help, YouTube, past work etc. it was really interesting to be able to interview both teachers and students gaining insight to the project as a whole. How did you analyse your data for observations? I kept a professional journal for observations, making notes on the session, issues, my thought etc. I found it was during this time I had many ideas for resources to help students. When I could see them struggling I would have an idea of a resource that could help. I think this will help me next year when I come to teach the unit for myself. How are you getting on with everything else?
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