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Progress step by step and thoughts on exams

Still slowly ploughing through the Module 2 work. I've finished a rough version of the inquiry proposal (minus a Gantt Chart 😂) and just a few adaptations are needed to the MORE form and the 5 million attachments that go with it.

Now for the literature review, I'm about a third of the way through word count-wise, trying to write a paragraph a day while work is crazy busy. My students are getting ready for Ballet exams. The day before our submission date, of course. Wonderful timing as always!

This course has made me reflect more in my practice, and now I contemplate things I used to just accept as the norm. Because I grew up being a syllabus child taking exams in Ballet, Tap and Modern since I was tiny, it just seems normal and I kind of thrived on the nervous energy as I got older. But I wonder sometimes when the kids seem stressed and nervous about their exams, do the negatives outweigh the positives? Especially when some of them are so young. Or does the achievement help boost them and provide them with the discipline for working towards academic exams?

I'd be interested to know any thoughts :) 

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  1. Isabella16 March 2023 at 13:36

    Wow congrats on finishing even if its a rough draft thats GREAT...as far as the exams I think it depends on the person what the kid has gone through in life what their daily stresses are etc. We all want to do well I guess the important thing is for them not to feel validated by a grade etc and know its ok to fail or not get a distinction .

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  2. Carys Dickens23 March 2023 at 05:34

    Thanks Isabella, I hope all is going well :)... totally agreed! It's not a one size fits all kind of thing

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