Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: The Arts

• • Unit introduction & curriculum overview of The Arts learning area
  • Framing The Arts Teacher Identity - lesson planning & microteaching
  • Cognition in The Arts - mapping the learning journey across phases of schooling
  • Evolving concepts of good teaching & programming principles - discrete disciplinary approaches, interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary approaches
  • National Curriculum (The Arts) - Arts Making Thread/strands
  • National Curriculum (Arts), (Responses; Arts in Society), Critical Response Frameworks
  • Devising Task Briefs: Part A - writing conventions & discipline specific considerations
  • Devising Task Briefs: Part B - writing conventions & discipline specific considerations
  • Assessment principles & assessment criteria
  • Assessment Processes - writing rubrics & marking keys
  • Making judgements - sources of evidence & moderation
  • Making judgements - sources of evidence & grade allocations
  • Review and Reflection

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2021
• CUR-SEC-MAS-2021
• CUR-SEC-MAS-2021
• UNE-PRO-GCE-2021

Special requirements

• OtherDetails -

  Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative, access to video creation and editing software.

This subject is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach The Arts curriculum in Lower Secondary school. The subject will focus on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, evaluation, resources, the demonstration of positive impact on student learning and research relating to The Arts in Lower Secondary Teaching and learning practices to support and challenge a diverse student cohort are explored.

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• Essay (50%)
• Portfolio (50%)