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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching the Arts
  • Unit Code

    AED6205
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit will provide pre-service teachers with the opportunity to explore the generalist’s role in facilitating visual art and music learning experiences in the Primary School. Students will be given the opportunity to explore the importance of these two learning areas and investigate creative ways in which they can be implemented by generalist teachers in the classroom. Through participation in collaborative and creative workshops students will have the opportunity to reflect on and apply strategies for integrating art and music into the primary school curriculum.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate and create original music and visual arts ideas.
  2. Explain the role of generalist teachers in facilitating meaningful visual art and music learning experiences.
  3. Plan art and music learning experiences for children in the primary years based on their research and on contemporary curriculum documents.
  4. Identify and apply appropriate teaching and learning strategies to develop children's visual art and musical literacy and creativity.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative and creative music and visual art work.
  2. Music and visual art in an integrated curriculum.
  3. Pedagogical approaches to visual art and music in general primary education.
  4. Planning for primary art and music learning experiences.
  5. Analyse and reflect on contemporary curriculum documents and theories related to visual art and music in primary education.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminar10 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, interactive tutorials

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education 2019. Delivering authentic arts education. South Melbourne, VIC: Cengage. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1111685137

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching the Arts
  • Unit Code

    AED6205
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit will provide pre-service teachers with the opportunity to explore the generalist’s role in facilitating visual art and music learning experiences in the Primary School. Students will be given the opportunity to explore the importance of these two learning areas and investigate creative ways in which they can be implemented by generalist teachers in the classroom. Through participation in collaborative and creative workshops students will have the opportunity to reflect on and apply strategies for integrating art and music into the primary school curriculum.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate and create original music and visual arts ideas.
  2. Explain the role of generalist teachers in facilitating meaningful visual art and music learning experiences.
  3. Plan art and music learning experiences for children in the primary years based on their research and on contemporary curriculum documents.
  4. Identify and apply appropriate teaching and learning strategies to develop children's visual art and musical literacy and creativity.

Unit Content

  1. Collaborative and creative music and visual art work.
  2. Music and visual art in an integrated curriculum.
  3. Pedagogical approaches to visual art and music in general primary education.
  4. Planning for primary art and music learning experiences.
  5. Analyse and reflect on contemporary curriculum documents and theories related to visual art and music in primary education.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminar10 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, interactive tutorials

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Dinham, J. (2019). Delivering authentic arts education 2019. Delivering authentic arts education. South Melbourne, VIC: Cengage. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1111685137

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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