Artefact one

For my first artefact I carried out a questionnaire on 40 individuals. 10 academic pupils, 10 academic teachers, 10 dance school pupils and 10 dance school teachers ranging from the ages of 6-57. I carried the questionnaires out at a dance school, a university dance team, a performer’s college, a primary school, and a secondary school. The questionnaire asked about what learning techniques they find work and whether they think audio-visual materials could be used to assist their learning/teaching. I personally asked them these questions, giving them examples of each question as some of the participants were quite young and I wanted them to have a full understanding of what they were being asked.

The above charts showed that pupils and teachers mainly benefited from visual and kinaesthetic methods of teaching and that the use of audio-visual would be a useful technique but only within a dance environment. From this exercise I learnt:

· The different teaching methods I will need to apply to the audio-visual footage in order for it to be successful and that these methods must change depending on the age of the pupils and the subject being taught.
· Established differences between dancing and academic methods ( kinaesthetic comes natural to dance)
· Audio- visual would be useful to dancing, not really schools as academic teaching does not require a lot of physical movement therefore there is not a lot to document on video.
· For younger pupils as mainly a practise repetition tool and older pupils as a analytical tool
· Through talking to the pupils I gained a greater understanding of what techniques were need for the pupils to obtain the information and that the most successful method is to combine several techniques.
· Where the methods I want to put into place would be useful.