Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: The Arts
PostgraduateCUR-MTS5112020
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Get prepared to teach upper secondary arts. Design an artistic career inspiring creativity in others. Learn to interpret assessment data. Build confidence and skills reporting student achievements. Moderate feedback and create learning plans.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: The Arts
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- apply high-level discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to evaluate and refine teaching programs to enhance student learning in Senior Secondary Arts
- interpret assessment data to provide feedback and inform teaching and learning in Senior Secondary Arts
- establish robust practices for the recording and reporting of student achievement in Senior Secondary Arts to educational stakeholders
- use contemporary research-based knowledge and understanding of Senior Secondary Arts curriculum to create learning plans to meet diverse needs of students
- generate assessment strategies to monitor, measure and make consistent and comparable judgments of student learning in Senior Secondary Arts
- Children at the Centre – What typically developing adolescents bring to their Senior Secondary Arts education
- Inclusion, differentiation, disability legislation
- Inclusive Arts Education
- Introduction to Senior School Arts Courses
- Differentiating Arts Making
- Differentiating Arts Responding
- School Based Assessment in Years 11 and 12
- External Assessment in Years 11 and 12
- Audience engagement
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- Reconciling the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) standards against inclusion outcomes
- Consolidating your Professional Arts Education Profile
This subject was previously known as Curriculum and Instruction Upper Secondary: The Arts
This subject is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach the Upper Secondary Arts curriculum. The focus of the subject is on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, assessment, reporting, the demonstration of positive impact on student learning and research relating to Upper Secondary Arts. The subject examines moderation, the provision of feedback and responding to individual student needs.
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- Essay (50%)
- Portfolio (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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