School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Lower Secondary Art Education (Years 7-9)
  • Unit Code

    AED2303
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Julia MORRIS

Description

This unit investigates the changing complexity of teaching and learning experiences as students move from primary to middle school visual arts education. The importance of integrated projects, visual literacy foundations and valid assessment practices informs the content of this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from AED2203

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED2301, AED3201, AED3311

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate proficiency in planning lessons and devising integrated learning experiences in art making and art interpretation.
  2. Design, present and evaluate a peer teaching art history/criticism lesson (microteaching).
  3. Explain assessment regimes for criterion and norm-referenced programs within the visual arts at middle years levels.
  4. Explain the content and intention of the DET Outcomes and Standards Framework (2004)(OSF), and relate this to the emerging Australian Curriculum.
  5. Identify significant sociological and cultural issues underpinning middle years visual arts education.
  6. Make clearly expressed contributions to any discussion about visual literacy (including encoding and decoding of visual text).
  7. Plan and write simple assessment criteria and related rubrics for lower secondary art projects.

Unit Content

  1. Art critical and art historical study of images and artefacts.
  2. Assessment principles and practices.
  3. Planning and teaching strategies for integrated middle years visual arts programs.
  4. Practical analysis of visual arts activities and resources.
  5. Western Australian and National Curriculum materials for the Arts (early adolescence).

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit consists of formal lectures, practical workshops and student research. The unit is underpinned by a Reader, prescribed text, collaborative learning experiences, individual student support and on-line resources through Blackboard.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCurriculum Assignment70%
PresentationMicroteaching30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Lower Secondary Art Education (Years 7-9)
  • Unit Code

    AED2303
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Julia MORRIS

Description

This unit investigates the changing complexity of teaching and learning experiences as students move from primary to middle school visual arts education. The importance of integrated projects, visual literacy foundations and valid assessment practices informs the content of this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from AED2203

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED2301, AED3201, AED3311

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate proficiency in planning lessons and devising integrated learning experiences in art making and art interpretation.
  2. Design, present and evaluate a peer teaching art history/criticism lesson (microteaching).
  3. Explain assessment regimes for criterion and norm-referenced programs within the visual arts at middle years levels.
  4. Explain the content and intention of the DET Outcomes and Standards Framework (2004)(OSF), and relate this to the emerging Australian Curriculum.
  5. Identify significant sociological and cultural issues underpinning middle years visual arts education.
  6. Make clearly expressed contributions to any discussion about visual literacy (including encoding and decoding of visual text).
  7. Plan and write simple assessment criteria and related rubrics for lower secondary art projects.

Unit Content

  1. Art critical and art historical study of images and artefacts.
  2. Assessment principles and practices.
  3. Planning and teaching strategies for integrated middle years visual arts programs.
  4. Practical analysis of visual arts activities and resources.
  5. Western Australian and National Curriculum materials for the Arts (early adolescence).

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit consists of formal lectures, practical workshops and student research. The unit is underpinned by a Reader, prescribed text, collaborative learning experiences, individual student support and on-line resources through Blackboard.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCurriculum Assignment70%
PresentationMicroteaching30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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