Ok so if you have read my previous post you will understand where this post is going, if you haven’t get a load of the comments as I am interested to hear about what you all think about the idea of
"All the experience but under qualified" versus "Educated but no experience".
Personally I have experienced both of these problems when applying to two different jobs. The first teaching job I went for at a local dance school declined me as I had no experience teaching even though I was professionally trained and had my CDE in Ballet and Modern classic example of “Educated but no experience”. The second time I did some work at a grammar school assisting with the A-Level Dance students with choreography and routes into dance, I had all the experience of teaching by then, I had been in a professional environment, had professional training, knew the dance world but didn’t have a degree or PGCE to continue working there so “All the experience but under qualified”.
So, just to make it clear (from my point of view) this is not a post to disagree with striving for a good education or seeking experience as I have got a history of consistent qualifications and experience, I am just interested in what people think about the subject on a whole.
I do think that the nature of what I have been through as a dancer, been judged and not always what people are after and the nature of being a teacher where you need to persevere and where there is always a new course or new challenge to be thrown at you is the whole reason why I can see both sides of this predicament.
Let me know what you think, can’t wait to read,
Abs
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
Need some classroom experience?
How many times do you go for a job and they say “Sorry if you have no experience then you’re not going to be suitable” or “We are just after someone with a little more experience” and you end up screaming “How do you expect me to get the experience if nobody is going to give it me”. Well I used to feel that it didn’t matter how many qualifications I had because what I don’t have is experience so why did I waste 6 years of my life studying when I can’t get a job because of all this lack of experience business!! I have friends with degrees and masters and they can’t even get a job, what more do you want, surely these people with a great education will cope with being taught what to do. Is it because it’s cheaper to employ these people with no qualifications or is it simply that they can’t be bothered to train these intelligent people?
Well fear not my fellow blog buddies things are looking up, and the thoughts of me wasting time getting a good education and studying something that I a naturally talented at went straight out the window when I heard about Monarch Education Recruitment http://www.monarchrecruitment.co.uk/teaching_jobs/
I had a good moan to my Mum about work as you do, and as she is a teacher she told me to “stop moaning and do something about it and look into Monarch”. Her school use’s Monarch to supply her school with cover teachers frequently and many of them work for the school full time now. So on the net I went and found out that they are literally on my doorstep and have lots of work. I posted my CV as instructed and the next day I received a very friendly phone call where I wasn’t actually dreading the “How much experience do you have” as I have some experience teaching in high schools, I was actually dreading it turning on me and asking what qualifications I had as I knew that I would need QTS and I was far from it. So, the question came and it was fine! I couldn’t believe it, I really did think that on this occasion it didn’t matter what experience I had to teach the subject that I pride myself in the fact that I didn’t have my degree was going to hold me back and it didn’t.
I went for the interview and provided them with evidence of my qualifications up to now and they were particularly interested in my Trinity Award as it is a Level 6 and with no degree (yet!) this is the best they’re going to get. I also told them about ideally what I want to do with my future and straight away they told me all my options. So I can be a Teachers Assistant for now and get classroom experience. Best of all I can pick the hours I work, the key stage I wish, the days I work, the schools I want and guess what the pay is good too. Obviously being an agency they do take a small cut but I want classroom experience and I’m not fully qualified and I have the choice to work it around my other work, I literally jumped at the opportunity and I’m sooooooo excited about it. I was also informed that if a school happens to like you then the chances of being accepted for a full time job (once qualified) is far greater than those they haven’t seen teach before.
If you really want some classroom experience then I would suggest checking it out as writing to schools in my area practically begging for them to give me classroom experience didn’t sound fun. As my specialty subject is dance I did worry that I would be limited, however experience in a school doing anything right now is appealing and if the school knew about my training I’m sure they would use it to their advantage as well as my own.
I’m really looking forward to it as I feel that I am going to learn a lot from watching all the teachers that I will be assisting and feel that I will get more of an idea of what it is I think I want to do. I also think that it will make me appreciate my level of training as I can only help me with gaining my experience.
Well fear not my fellow blog buddies things are looking up, and the thoughts of me wasting time getting a good education and studying something that I a naturally talented at went straight out the window when I heard about Monarch Education Recruitment http://www.monarchrecruitment.co.uk/teaching_jobs/
I had a good moan to my Mum about work as you do, and as she is a teacher she told me to “stop moaning and do something about it and look into Monarch”. Her school use’s Monarch to supply her school with cover teachers frequently and many of them work for the school full time now. So on the net I went and found out that they are literally on my doorstep and have lots of work. I posted my CV as instructed and the next day I received a very friendly phone call where I wasn’t actually dreading the “How much experience do you have” as I have some experience teaching in high schools, I was actually dreading it turning on me and asking what qualifications I had as I knew that I would need QTS and I was far from it. So, the question came and it was fine! I couldn’t believe it, I really did think that on this occasion it didn’t matter what experience I had to teach the subject that I pride myself in the fact that I didn’t have my degree was going to hold me back and it didn’t.
I went for the interview and provided them with evidence of my qualifications up to now and they were particularly interested in my Trinity Award as it is a Level 6 and with no degree (yet!) this is the best they’re going to get. I also told them about ideally what I want to do with my future and straight away they told me all my options. So I can be a Teachers Assistant for now and get classroom experience. Best of all I can pick the hours I work, the key stage I wish, the days I work, the schools I want and guess what the pay is good too. Obviously being an agency they do take a small cut but I want classroom experience and I’m not fully qualified and I have the choice to work it around my other work, I literally jumped at the opportunity and I’m sooooooo excited about it. I was also informed that if a school happens to like you then the chances of being accepted for a full time job (once qualified) is far greater than those they haven’t seen teach before.
If you really want some classroom experience then I would suggest checking it out as writing to schools in my area practically begging for them to give me classroom experience didn’t sound fun. As my specialty subject is dance I did worry that I would be limited, however experience in a school doing anything right now is appealing and if the school knew about my training I’m sure they would use it to their advantage as well as my own.
I’m really looking forward to it as I feel that I am going to learn a lot from watching all the teachers that I will be assisting and feel that I will get more of an idea of what it is I think I want to do. I also think that it will make me appreciate my level of training as I can only help me with gaining my experience.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Amazing
You have to see this video, she is 15, and has super good technique. I watched this and hardly blinked incase i missed something. I think she has a great dancing future. Enjoy :-)
Monday, 4 January 2010
Academic Writing Style draft 4!
Could a sequel potentially ruin the reputation of the longest running musical on Broadway?
“Phantom of the Opera is based on a 1911 novel, Le Fantome de l'Opera, written by French author Gaston Leroux. Leroux based the novel on his own research into strange events that occurred at the Paris Opera House in the 1880s. Though the novel was not widely read or well reviewed in its own time, the adaptation of Phantom to both screen and stage has familiarised the public with this haunting love story” (Anon, By eHow Contributing Writer)
It is believed that reliable facts and figures from (The Really Useful Group LTD) shows that "It is estimated that Phantom has been seen by more than 100 million people worldwide having been played in no fewer than 14 languages. The show has won over 50 major theatre awards including three Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Oliver Audience Award for Most Popular Show, an Evening Standard Award, seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Critic Circle Awards".
Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) one of the wealthiest and most successful composers today, yet again the man behind the most successful musical in history and “The Oscar-winning composer of some of the most successful British musicals of all time” (Kunal and Peck 2009)
Phantoms success is yet to be topped, but for how long now that the landmark musical is faced by its sequel “Love never dies” which opens at the Adelphi Theatre on 9th March 2010.
The production is set 10 years from Phantom and far away from the Paris Opera House, Christine and Raoul are now in living in Coney Island where Webber based the story on all of the original characters after taking some advice from Ben Elton (1959).
Sequels have played an important part in the history of Hollywood during their Golden Age in the 1930's. Broadway however has had less luck. It is apparent that successful plays and musicals have often spawned unsuccessful sequels.
“In a move that some theatre experts have described as "risky". Lloyd Webber will also attempt to make history by staging the first successful sequel to a musical anywhere in the world. All previous bids to repeat the triumph of original productions have failed miserably” (Nikkhah 2009)
Maybe the sequel will celebrate the life and success of Phantom and only time will tell, and with Phantoms track record we could be in for the long run, however, it could be hard to convince you that this time a sequel will actually be successful after reading “Much of the chatter I've been hearing about Love Never Dies seems to be assuming that the show will be a guaranteed disaster, a bad idea from its very conception. Part of this comes from the fact that no musical sequel has ever been successful Let 'Em Eat Cake (sequel to Of Thee I Sing), Bring Back Birdie (Bye Bye Birdie), Annie Warbucks (Annie), Divorce Me, Darling (The Boy Friend), The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) Well, that doesn't mean that no musical sequel could ever be successful, just that it hasn't happened yet” (Caggiano, 2009) However to argue that this sequel isn’t what the public are craving,
“Musical sequels are a very risky business. The 1960 smash Bye Bye Birdie was a thinly veiled satire of Elvis Presley. It ran for 607 performances. In 1981 the creative team behind the show produced a sequel called Bring Back Birdie. Nobody wanted him back, and the musical folded after four performances” (Botto, 2006)
It could be decided that there are a lot of sequels on record that have failed to be successful as Webbers "Bombay dreams" wasn't exactly a hit, so you can understand the negative critism towards “Love never Dies”. In a recent online video Andrew Lloyd Webber admits to saying that “Love Never Dies has been in the making for seventeen years” and that “The story of Christine and the Phantom didn’t really end” (The Really Useful Group LTD, 2009).
Seventeen years in the making Webber has to prove to be more than capable of producing a fantastic, successful sequel. Maybe this time he will and he will change the opinions of audiences worldwide and be the producer of the only successful sequel in Broadway history.
References
1) Anon, eHow Contributing Writer http://www.ehow.co.uk/about_4569129_facts-phantom-opera.html?cr=1 [accessed 24th November 2009]
2) The Really Useful Group Limited, http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/ [accessed 26th November 2009]
3) Kunal, D, and Peck, T, 2009, “I have cancer says Lloyd Webber”, The Independent, [online] 26 October, Available from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/i-have-cancer-says-lloyd-webber-1809423.html [accessed 24th November 2009]
4) Nikkhah, R, 2009, “Andrew Lloyd Webber attempts to make history with Phantom of the Opera sequel” The Telegraph [online], 04 October, available from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/6257769/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-attempts-to-make-history-with-Phantom-of-the-Opera-sequel.html [accessed date 25th November 2009]
5) Chris Caggiano,
http://ccaggiano.typepad.com/everything_i_know_i_learn/2009/05/phantom-sequel-to-have-march-2010-premiere-.html [accessed 17th December 2009]
6) Louis Botto, http://www.playbill.com/features/article/101485-The-Broadway-Sequel [accessed 16th December 2009]
7) The Really Useful Group LTD, http://www.loveneverdies.com/?video=lnd-launch-edit#video [accessed 15th October 2009]
“Phantom of the Opera is based on a 1911 novel, Le Fantome de l'Opera, written by French author Gaston Leroux. Leroux based the novel on his own research into strange events that occurred at the Paris Opera House in the 1880s. Though the novel was not widely read or well reviewed in its own time, the adaptation of Phantom to both screen and stage has familiarised the public with this haunting love story” (Anon, By eHow Contributing Writer)
It is believed that reliable facts and figures from (The Really Useful Group LTD) shows that "It is estimated that Phantom has been seen by more than 100 million people worldwide having been played in no fewer than 14 languages. The show has won over 50 major theatre awards including three Olivier Awards, the most recent being the 2002 Oliver Audience Award for Most Popular Show, an Evening Standard Award, seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, seven Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Critic Circle Awards".
Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) one of the wealthiest and most successful composers today, yet again the man behind the most successful musical in history and “The Oscar-winning composer of some of the most successful British musicals of all time” (Kunal and Peck 2009)
Phantoms success is yet to be topped, but for how long now that the landmark musical is faced by its sequel “Love never dies” which opens at the Adelphi Theatre on 9th March 2010.
The production is set 10 years from Phantom and far away from the Paris Opera House, Christine and Raoul are now in living in Coney Island where Webber based the story on all of the original characters after taking some advice from Ben Elton (1959).
Sequels have played an important part in the history of Hollywood during their Golden Age in the 1930's. Broadway however has had less luck. It is apparent that successful plays and musicals have often spawned unsuccessful sequels.
“In a move that some theatre experts have described as "risky". Lloyd Webber will also attempt to make history by staging the first successful sequel to a musical anywhere in the world. All previous bids to repeat the triumph of original productions have failed miserably” (Nikkhah 2009)
Maybe the sequel will celebrate the life and success of Phantom and only time will tell, and with Phantoms track record we could be in for the long run, however, it could be hard to convince you that this time a sequel will actually be successful after reading “Much of the chatter I've been hearing about Love Never Dies seems to be assuming that the show will be a guaranteed disaster, a bad idea from its very conception. Part of this comes from the fact that no musical sequel has ever been successful Let 'Em Eat Cake (sequel to Of Thee I Sing), Bring Back Birdie (Bye Bye Birdie), Annie Warbucks (Annie), Divorce Me, Darling (The Boy Friend), The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) Well, that doesn't mean that no musical sequel could ever be successful, just that it hasn't happened yet” (Caggiano, 2009) However to argue that this sequel isn’t what the public are craving,
“Musical sequels are a very risky business. The 1960 smash Bye Bye Birdie was a thinly veiled satire of Elvis Presley. It ran for 607 performances. In 1981 the creative team behind the show produced a sequel called Bring Back Birdie. Nobody wanted him back, and the musical folded after four performances” (Botto, 2006)
It could be decided that there are a lot of sequels on record that have failed to be successful as Webbers "Bombay dreams" wasn't exactly a hit, so you can understand the negative critism towards “Love never Dies”. In a recent online video Andrew Lloyd Webber admits to saying that “Love Never Dies has been in the making for seventeen years” and that “The story of Christine and the Phantom didn’t really end” (The Really Useful Group LTD, 2009).
Seventeen years in the making Webber has to prove to be more than capable of producing a fantastic, successful sequel. Maybe this time he will and he will change the opinions of audiences worldwide and be the producer of the only successful sequel in Broadway history.
References
1) Anon, eHow Contributing Writer http://www.ehow.co.uk/about_4569129_facts-phantom-opera.html?cr=1 [accessed 24th November 2009]
2) The Really Useful Group Limited, http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/ [accessed 26th November 2009]
3) Kunal, D, and Peck, T, 2009, “I have cancer says Lloyd Webber”, The Independent, [online] 26 October, Available from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/i-have-cancer-says-lloyd-webber-1809423.html [accessed 24th November 2009]
4) Nikkhah, R, 2009, “Andrew Lloyd Webber attempts to make history with Phantom of the Opera sequel” The Telegraph [online], 04 October, available from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/6257769/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-attempts-to-make-history-with-Phantom-of-the-Opera-sequel.html [accessed date 25th November 2009]
5) Chris Caggiano,
http://ccaggiano.typepad.com/everything_i_know_i_learn/2009/05/phantom-sequel-to-have-march-2010-premiere-.html [accessed 17th December 2009]
6) Louis Botto, http://www.playbill.com/features/article/101485-The-Broadway-Sequel [accessed 16th December 2009]
7) The Really Useful Group LTD, http://www.loveneverdies.com/?video=lnd-launch-edit#video [accessed 15th October 2009]
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