My Professional Artefact

I had originally planned for my artefact to take on the form of a lesson plan whereby differentiation was built in to allow me to cater for various students learning styles. I still anticipate I will be able to produce this as one of the outcomes of my research project but do not necessarily want it to be my artefact.

While a lesson plan will be of use to me and other teachers I feel it could be limited with the amount of information that it could provide. I feel I have learnt a great deal about my subject area and want to share this knowledge with my professional community. I am now looking at producing a leaflet or guidance booklet for teachers informing them about the benefits off using differentiation and providing them a variety of ways of integrating it into a dance class.

I feel my artefact is a worthy piece of work to produce as through literature reviews I haven’t found anything that already acts as a resource for teachers in this area, there are useful ways of using differentiation within the educational system but nothing that is specific to a dance class. One document that begins to address such issues is The Dance Inclusive Spectrum, produced as part of the Youth Sport Dance, Conference 2009. I have reviewed this document http://cerysdixie.blogspot.com/2011/11/literature-review-5.html, and found it a useful resource but it is limited with its information. I do however like its format, and its use of bright colours, lots of pictures and easy to read bullet points. Nicholas Norman has highlighted the importance of knowing who your targeted audience is and presenting your information in an appropriate way. Like Nicholas my intended audience are people within the arts industry and so an interesting, colourful, visual and not too formal approach should work best.