School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    RAD Access Route
  • Unit Code

    DAN3450
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Susan PEACOCK

Description

The Access Route to the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Teacher Registration gives students the knowledge, understanding and skills required by ballet teachers at the start of their careers. With a focus on the RAD’s ballet syllabi, students explore the development and progression of ballet technique which will complement the teaching skills acquired in the Bachelor of Arts (Dance) program at WAAPA.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students may be required to attend on-line classes at times outside the standard timetable. Some practical teaching aspects may also be at times other than generally timetabled.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Confidently discuss the RAD syllabi including the content and progressions in ballet vocabulary.
  2. Plan and deliver effective and inclusive learning and teaching in dance, including preparing teaching materials tailored appropriately to meet learners’ needs.
  3. Teach ballet effectively and safely using practical demonstration as appropriate.
  4. Manage a dance class environment, using teaching skills to observe children and young people and evaluate their learning needs, and establish a purposeful learning environment.
  5. Work independently, use initiative, take responsibility for learning and use a range of ICT skills.

Unit Content

  1. Pre-Primary and Primary in Dance, Grade 1-5, Intermediate Foundation and Intermediate.
  2. The RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) syllabus and examinations framework.
  3. Key features of RAD syllabi, including distinctions between Graded and Vocational Graded work.
  4. The progressions or building blocks’ essential for the effective learning and teaching of ballet.
  5. Fundamentals of ballet and Character Dance technique.
  6. Demonstration as a teaching tool and music for dance teachers.
  7. Devising progress charts.

Learning Experience

WIL - Online project or virtual WIL

Work done in a remote or online location - students undertake an activity in collaboration or consultation with an industry partner but do not spend any time or only a very small amount of time  (e.g. 1-2 short visits) in an actual workplace.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in two intensive study periods and complete a year-long online module.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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 School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Assignment ^Successful completion of all RAD Access Route Assessments

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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