Teaching Arts in the Primary Years

• • 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

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

Core

• CUR-PRI-MAS-2022
• CUR-PRI-MAS-2023

Elective

• CUR-EDU-GCE-2022
• CUR-EDU-GCE-2022
• CUR-EDU-GCE-2023
• CUR-EDU-GCE-2023

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

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

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.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

• Portfolio of arts teaching content and resourcing and planning (60%)
• Lesson plan and video of teaching (40%)

Current study term: 26 Feb 23 to 28 May 23