It is extremely important for us to evaluate our work as it can ‘contribute to an artist’s own professional development and can be an important part of developing skills as a reflective practitioner.’ (Amans 2008, 173) You can collect evidence to help the evaluation process in any way you wish, whether it is interviews, questionnaires and recordings. We decided to have a feedback discussion at the end of the session. The most common positive feedback we received was the activities we created was age appropriate and they believed that the children would be engaged throughout. We were also told our language and tone of voice used was suitable. The main criticism is that the length of the session was quite short and they were waiting for more. As a group we have learnt that planning lessons can prove to be difficult, although we had the correct content for the age group we did not have enough to fill out our half an hour slot. If we were to present this lesson again we would add other activities to lengthen the session. As well as this we would run through the lesson as a group to have a better idea of the duration of each activity.

Works Cited

Amans, D. (2008) An introduction to community dance practice, New York: Palgrave Macmillian.