Calasanz.MelissaAdylia 1
LEAP 198 Senior Project
Student Supervisor of the Glendale Community College
DANCE 107
Survey of Dance Teaching Methodology Class
Weekly Reflection Paper No. 9
Now that I have completed the documents
“DANCE 107 DANCE 107 Final Portfolio Guidelines and Exam Date Reminders cc” and
‘DANCE 107 Rubric D107 Final Exam Portfolio Evaluation cc” I realized I am
coming into the home stretch. I cannot believe this semester is almost done!
The ending of this semester is
bitter-sweet. Sweet, because I will be done with my ART111, HEALTH 104, FN146,
DANCE 107 Class, DANCE 107 Internship, and DACNE 50 internship. Just typing all
those classes exhausts me! Bitter, because I will no longer be working with
Dora. I will miss how much I look forward to our bi-weekly meetings about the
students, rubrics, lesson plans, ethics, and organization. I will miss being
challenged to explore course outlines, SLOs, and the inner working of college
documentation, and hiring processes. And I will miss so much more.
I will miss the students who really want
to work, want to learn, and want to do their best. I will miss the feeling of
accomplishment when I submit a document for Dora’s approval. I will miss
evaluating the portfolios, lesson plans, and two-page essays from the students,
and I will definitely miss watching the students teach class to their fellow
students. However, I will not miss the lack of physical activity my body is
suffering from this semester. I cannot wait to get away from the computer, get
some rest, and enjoy some exercise, for a couple of weeks before I begin a
winter session class in January.
During my break before winter session,
I’ve volunteered to help Dora transfer many of the documents I created to
Moodle. I am so honored to know that lesson plans, and assignments I created
are good enough to be integrated with Dora’s Survey of Dance Teaching
Methodology Class.
While discussing the Moodle transfer,
Dora and I realized that we never addressed your (Mark B.) request for a text
suggestion. When the semester first began, we both used google, asked people,
poked around in the library (I even used the Saint Mary’s Library resources to
no avail), and found nothing that lent any assistance with completing the tasks
I had set out to do. When we realized we had not found a book, Dora said
something along the lines of “what you needed to learn about lesson plans,
Bloom’s taxonomy, SLOs, etc. for a college…I don’t know where you would fine
one text book for that…what you did…your research and the examples you found is
how you learn…that is how I learned.”
I am confident that the amount of
reading, printing, typing, re-doing documents and the finished results are
proof that the information I gleaned from poking around the Glendale College,
UC Irvine, Cal State Long Beach, and Saint Mary’s websites, was priceless. The
process of doing my own research, and learning by trial and error has lent a
better understanding of how to create respectable lesson plans, study guides,
assignments, and rubrics, as well as practical experience about time-management
and document organization and labeling.
My last document assignment from Dora
was to send out an email reminder about final assignment deadlines and the
final exam: “DANCE 107 Final Portfolio Guidelines and Exam Date Reminders cc.” I
also took it upon myself to create a more detailed grading rubric for the
student’s final portfolio, “DANCE 107 Rubric D107 Final Exam Portfolio
Evaluation cc.” Yes, it met Dora’s approval. J
I’m really looking forward to seeing the
portfolios the students will be tuning in next week for their final grade! J
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