Teaching Arts in the Primary Years
PostgraduateCUR-MTP5092025
Learn how to design and teach arts activities that reflect arts learning principles. Examine the features of safe and ethical learning environments, create enquiry-based lessons and evaluate arts teaching and learning using an improvement framework.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Teaching Arts in the Primary Years
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- apply understanding of the discipline and the Australian Curriculum to evaluating, planning and resourcing authentic arts education practices
- demonstrate a competent standard of arts literacy in the making and responding strands of the arts curriculum sufficient to implement authentic, inquiry-based learning experiences
- create an inquiry-based sequence of arts lessons in accordance with the principles and content in the Australian Curriculum: The Arts that present challenging and authentic learning opportunities for a nominated age group
- design and implement an arts learning experience appropriate for the children’s school age that involves safe, responsible and ethical practices and reflects authentic arts learning principles
- evaluate arts teaching and learning through a learning advancement cycle framework
- Nature and function of arts experiences in primary school education
- Making and Responding in the five arts subjects
- Arts pedagogies to develop diverse children’s agency as individual learners
- Planning an inquiry-based program and lesson planning
- Assessment of arts learning
- Review of learning and teaching in a continuous advancement cycle
- Partnerships and lifelong learning strategies for effective educators
This subject prepares pre-service teachers to teach the Arts in Primary schools through the five Arts subjects: Dance, Drama, Media arts, Music and Visual arts. It explores authentic Arts education practices and inquiry-based learning approaches. It develops Arts literacy competence in pre-service teachers and considers safe and ethical teaching and learning environments.
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- Portfolio of arts teaching content and resourcing and planning (60%)
- Lesson plan and video of teaching (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-PRI-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary Education)
Elective
- CUR-EDU-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative, access to video creation and editing software.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
6 student respondents between 20 May - 11 June 2024.
66%of students felt the study load was manageable
83%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Teaching (Primary Education)
PostgraduateCUR-PRI-MAS
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateCUR-EDU-GCE