Writing a Bio....

Wow, it's been a busy week! Wanting to encourage regular blogging and commenting alas life gets in the way sometimes! Like Adesola says 'life is what happens to our plans'!

Stephanie Thomas made a good point in a recent post that the work we are doing for this qualification is primarily to benefit our own professional practise. It is not intended to make us stress or worry about not blogging this, or not updates that etc! Keep going everyone, lets keep motivation to pursue research and discussion on a high!

On a separate note, my practise is requiring me to create a snappy bio for some workshops I will be teaching next month. They are in ballet, jazz, modern and tap, and all with students I have never met before but attend a dance school local to me. They will have just finished their RAD exam period, so are looking for something different to syllabus work, but the lessons I teach must still be educational and valuable to their development. I have been asked to produce a bio to promote them, although I have a CV, one that I use as a standard base and tweak here and there according to whats needed, I have never actually written a bio before. It need to be quirky yet informative I presume, does anyone have any ideas as to where I could go for advice? Perhaps research some templates, or suggested guidelines.

Relating this to where we are in the module now, I suppose this is all part and parcel of what is required of me when making the transition into teaching. Regarding my professional inquiry on this topic, here I find myself in a prime example of a situation where I am needing to draw upon existing knowledge and experience, but also needing to gain more to create an effective bio. Although I am sure whatever bio I create for now will be a framework that I will need to constantly develop, I think I am highlight a key element in what is required of a dancer making a career transition. Easy access to various CV's and personal information that you have able to hand over to employees without delay. Professionalism plays a part here - surely an employee will favour the person who has impressive and concise paperwork to hand quickly more so?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!