Visual and Media Arts Education

• • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to address visual arts elements and principles
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to stimulate visual perception and understanding
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to stimulate creativity, imagination and self-expression
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons that incorporate design strategies and processes (storyboard and comics)
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - creative and effective ways of designing Arts Responding activities with reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - planning a program (Unit of Inquiry module)
  • Conceiving lesson planning and assessment within an improvement cycle
  • Effective preparation and pedagogy for arts education
  • Dialogues for learning in a learner-centred and inquiry-based learning context
  • Stewardship of the ethical, safe, functional, inclusive and culturally sensitive learning environment that promotes children’s agency
  • The role of partnerships and life-long learning strategies in delivering good quality arts education
  • Positioning professional arts education understandings and capabilities within the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers framework

• Study resources

  • Instructional methods

    • Standard Media
    • Web links
    • Embedded Multimedia
    • Chat Rooms
    • Online assignment submission
    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board

  • Online materials

    • Audio-Video streaming
    • Online Assessment
    • Resources and Links

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-EDP263-Visual and Media Arts Education

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

CUR-EDC153-Performing Arts for Educators

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as EDP263 Visual and Media Arts Education

Planning and pedagogy of authentic forms of arts education are addressed through the curriculum subjects of Media and Visual Arts. The school curriculum provides the framework for planning sequential, inquiry-based and engaging learning opportunities for primary school children. Experiential learning opportunities and reflective practices facilitate the development of practical understanding of the scope and nature of arts learning across the primary school years. Personal media and visual arts literacy are promoted as the foundation for teaching within a lifelong learning framework. Pedagogical understandings and practices that support the development of children’s identities and agency through their creativity, self-expression, meaning-making and communication of ideas are studied, practiced with children, and reviewed using an improvement cycle framework.

*** You will be required to locate a small range of art materials to complete art activities. ***

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• ePortfolio of Arts Making, Arts Responding and Arts Program (50%)
• Video-recorded Performance of Micro Teaching (50%)