To complete the course, you are asked to:
1. Complete your personal project plan in class before commencing it in the last part of the course.
2. Your project will last for three weeks, with you practicing as you have planned 4 times a week for 15-20 minutes, while keeping a diary of each practice session.
3. Write a paper and prepare a presentation/demonstration of what you did, to give in class (last two classes of the course).
4. Present your personal project in class, and hand in your paper to the teacher via e-mail.
We have worked together in class to refine our personal project plans to include the following elements:
STATE and PRACTICE
For 15-20 minutes 4X a week for three weeks you will:
-do a warm-up or other tactic to change your STATE of mind and body.
-Carry out a PRACTICE tactic used in class, or derived from class work
Make sure that you carry out TASKS and decide which TACTIC to use:
A task is something that you CAN do in a given amount of TIME with SUCCESS.
TIME is a short period between 20 seconds and 7 minutes.
SUCCESS comes when you have done the task that you set out to do, that is all.
A TACTIC is a skill or activity learned in class. We have often given these tactics names. You can find all these practice tactics and warm-ups either on the class page or on the Flashcards page where all the tactics are listed.
Note when you are planning and doing your practicing which TOOLS you are using out of this list:
TIME, SPACE, EFFORT, MUSIC, CRAFT (& FUN!)
DIARY: Keep a diary of each practice session, in which you write a few sentences about
-What you did
-How long you did each part
-Experiences/feelings/observations
Content PERSONAL PROJECT PRESENTATION AND PAPERS
In the presentation, and the accompanying paper, you are asked to:
1. Tell what your personal project plan was and the reasons for your choices in doing it. What was your goal and the tasks and timing your picked to work on it?
2. Take a look in your project diary. Tell some of the experiences that you had during your project weeks. Did your understanding and skills progress? What were the ups and downs? Did you notice your goal changing as you worked?
3. Demonstrate a task that you gave yourself through a short live practice demonstration.
4. Tell what you learned about yourself and your work from doing your personal project.
5. What Tools did you use from the list TIME, SPACE, EFFORT, MUSIC, CRAFT (& FUN!). How did you experience their use in your work?
6. Give your ideas about how you could progress further, or in a different direction, based on what you learned during your project.