Skype call with Helen

I have just had a very uplifting call with my tutor Helen. She has smoothed out creases and overall calmed me. I had started to worry that my research and interests were sending me off on a tangent to unhelpful plains. However, after discussing this with Helen, I now realise tangents are often useful as they illuminate what aspects of our practice really interest us.

I had concerns that my inquiry (still a work in progress) was moving too far away from the arts - The Impact Of A Good Teacher/ What makes a good teacher. Helen reminded me that my knowledge and experience within the arts, would bring specialist skills to my role as a teacher, therefore bringing depth to my inquiry, as I could research whether specialist skills make a better teacher.

We also touched on how assumptions could be damaging to an inquiry. It is necessary to unpick questions to ensure the inquiry and research produced from the inquiry are valid. For example, before starting my inquiry I need to decipher what constitutes as a 'good teacher'. Different people will have different standards of 'good' and what makes a 'teacher'. This would also be relevant to any research I carried out. In the instance of producing a questionnaire, there needs to be clear questions that cannot be misinterpreted.