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

    Teaching Music in the Early Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    MUE4270
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit provides pre-service teachers with opportunities to explore creative approaches to teaching music in early primary years. Students will participate in listening, performing, improvising and composing activities and will formulate strategies to assist children's understandings of musical concepts. Students will create and evaluate learning experiences for children that incorporate music, creativity and relevant general capabilities and cross curriculum priorities. Students will also explore and appraise music teaching resources for use in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the purpose and value of a creative approach to music teaching in the early primary years.
  2. Identify appropriate teaching and learning strategies to develop children's musical literacy with related general capabilities and cross-curricular priorities.
  3. Plan, develop and assess music learning experiences for children in the early primary years based on contemporary curriculum documents.
  4. Select, critique and justify the use of music teaching resources.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary approaches to music teaching in early primary years.
  2. Planning and assessing music learning experiences.
  3. Music and child-centred learning as part of a creative teaching approach.
  4. Contemporary curriculum documents related to music, creativity and related general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.
  5. Critical examination of music teaching resources.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered14 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, practical activities, discussions and/or online learning activities.

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
PresentationPerformance50%
AssignmentPaper50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPerformance50%
AssignmentPaper50%

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

    Teaching Music in the Early Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    MUE4270
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit provides pre-service teachers with opportunities to explore creative approaches to teaching music in early primary years. Students will participate in listening, performing, improvising and composing activities and will formulate strategies to assist children's understandings of musical concepts. Students will create and evaluate learning experiences for children that incorporate music, creativity and relevant general capabilities and cross curriculum priorities. Students will also explore and appraise music teaching resources for use in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the purpose and value of a creative approach to music teaching in the early primary years.
  2. Identify appropriate teaching and learning strategies to develop children's musical literacy with related general capabilities and cross-curricular priorities.
  3. Plan, develop and assess music learning experiences for children in the early primary years based on contemporary curriculum documents.
  4. Select, critique and justify the use of music teaching resources.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary approaches to music teaching in early primary years.
  2. Planning and assessing music learning experiences.
  3. Music and child-centred learning as part of a creative teaching approach.
  4. Contemporary curriculum documents related to music, creativity and related general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.
  5. Critical examination of music teaching resources.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered14 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, practical activities, discussions and/or online learning activities.

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
PresentationPerformance50%
AssignmentPaper50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPerformance50%
AssignmentPaper50%

Core Reading(s)

  • [Unknown]. (2010, January 1). In Musical beginnings : songs and rhymes for early childhood. Forest Lake, Qld: KMEI Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/512207797

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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