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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Music in Secondary School
  • Unit Code

    MUE2125
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jason John GOOPY

Description

This unit operates as an introduction to the teaching of lower secondary school class music. In this unit students will focus on developing their own philosophy of music education, and will examine basic wide ranging content as a basis for designing their own lower secondary music curriculum. The fundamentals of learning theories will be applied to different methodologies such as Kodaly and Gordon's Audiation and issues pertaining to motivation, creativity, management and planning will be explored. The unit will also examine in detail teaching strategies such as the Active Learning principles and Fautley's Group Composition model, and their implications for designing learning activities in lower secondary class music. These will then be applied across a variety of genres and settings with the aim of aligning with the WA K-10 music syllabus, and eventually the incoming Australian Arts Curriculum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MUE2120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically appraise existing philosophies and methodologies in music education.
  2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the Dalcoze, Kodaly and Orff methodologies.
  3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the Active Listening principles and Fautley's Group Compositional model.
  4. Demonstrate an ability to plan both individual lessons and develop programs for lower secondary class music.
  5. Develop and use a range of both formative and summative assessment strategies.
  6. Plan creative and motivational music lessons which align with the WA K-10 music syllabus.
  7. Successfully argue the philosophical place of music within the lower secondary curriculum.

Unit Content

  1. Basic programming and lesson preparation, with particular regard to motivation, creativity and practical involvement.
  2. Detailed examination of the various and changing philosophies which guide the teaching of music, with particular regard to the WA K-10 music syllabus, and the emerging Australian Arts Curriculum.
  3. Detailed exploration within the Active Learning model and the Fautley Group Compositional model as teaching strategies in lower secondary school.
  4. Examination assessment, moderation and evaluation within the K-10 music syllabus. Examination of practical issues associated with teaching lower secondary music, including resourcing, gender issues, school politics and community involvement, given the changing contextual and social framework in which music is taught.
  5. Examination of assessment, moderation and evaluation within the K-10 music syllabus.
  6. Exploration of other methodologies such as Kodaly and Gordon's Audiation, and their practical application in the WA context.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and workshops, Backboard documents and materials, Independent study, Problem solving and creative based learning in groups.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 140%
AssignmentAssignment 2 / Workshop60%

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 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. 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, 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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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Teaching Music in Secondary School
  • Unit Code

    MUE2125
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jason John GOOPY

Description

This unit operates as an introduction to the teaching of lower secondary school class music. In this unit students will focus on developing their own philosophy of music education, and will examine basic wide ranging content as a basis for designing their own lower secondary music curriculum. The fundamentals of learning theories will be applied to different methodologies such as Kodaly and Gordon's Audiation and issues pertaining to motivation, creativity, management and planning will be explored. The unit will also examine in detail teaching strategies such as the Active Learning principles and Fautley's Group Composition model, and their implications for designing learning activities in lower secondary class music. These will then be applied across a variety of genres and settings with the aim of aligning with the WA K-10 music syllabus, and eventually the incoming Australian Arts Curriculum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MUE2120

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically appraise existing philosophies and methodologies in music education.
  2. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the Dalcoze, Kodaly and Orff methodologies.
  3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the Active Listening principles and Fautley's Group Compositional model.
  4. Demonstrate an ability to plan both individual lessons and develop programs for lower secondary class music.
  5. Develop and use a range of both formative and summative assessment strategies.
  6. Plan creative and motivational music lessons which align with the WA K-10 music syllabus.
  7. Successfully argue the philosophical place of music within the lower secondary curriculum.

Unit Content

  1. Basic programming and lesson preparation, with particular regard to motivation, creativity and practical involvement.
  2. Detailed examination of the various and changing philosophies which guide the teaching of music, with particular regard to the WA K-10 music syllabus, and the emerging Australian Arts Curriculum.
  3. Detailed exploration within the Active Learning model and the Fautley Group Compositional model as teaching strategies in lower secondary school.
  4. Examination assessment, moderation and evaluation within the K-10 music syllabus. Examination of practical issues associated with teaching lower secondary music, including resourcing, gender issues, school politics and community involvement, given the changing contextual and social framework in which music is taught.
  5. Examination of assessment, moderation and evaluation within the K-10 music syllabus.
  6. Exploration of other methodologies such as Kodaly and Gordon's Audiation, and their practical application in the WA context.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and workshops, Backboard documents and materials, Independent study, Problem solving and creative based learning in groups.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 140%
AssignmentAssignment 2 / Workshop60%

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 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. 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, 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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