Hello friends. I hope you are all doing well! I am feeling super stressed. I have had assignment after assignment due these past few days as well as a dance show which I was in and we have been practicing every single day, for four hours each evening, for the past two weeks.

I have been so edgy and cannot wait for December 15^th to arrive so that all the examinations, tests, and pressure are over with. Sometimes I feel like I have heart palpitations because of it all and I can’t actually take it. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night in fright that I have missed a test or assignment and my heart is beating and I am basically in a sweat about it all.

But anyways, that’s been my life for the past few weeks, and hopefully, yours has been much better! Let’s get to Study unit 5! The importance of assessment in the foundation phase in correlation with the performing arts and for what reasons it is neglected!

I think that the possible reasons why the assessments are often neglected according to the study unit, as well as general thoughts, are because there is a lack of performing arts teachers, some teachers do not perceive the performing arts as an actual subject that should be assessed, teachers may not necessarily have the knowledge on how to go about the assessments and the criteria in which they need to follow when assessing the performing arts, while these teachers may also have time constraints and subjects other than the performing arts tack priority in comparison and so no time is left for it and they may not also prioritize these performing arts assessments.

In order to change this dilemma on how teachers view the performing arts teachers in the performing arts would need to create an awareness by communicating and expressing the importance of the performing arts as a subject as well as the fact that this subject is equally as important as other subjects with many beneficial factors for learning and so the assessments, as well as the assessment criteria, will be just as important. The assessment criteria can then be explained and made available to those who are in need of a more in-depth explanation of it.

I hope you have an amazing evening! This is another requirement ticked off my list! Let’s hope I can get a better night’s sleep for it! Toodels!