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 Music in the Early Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    MUE4270
  • Year

    2020
  • 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.

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.

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 Music in the Early Primary Years
  • Unit Code

    MUE4270
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit supports pre-service educators who wish to develop specialist knowledge for teaching music to children in pre-primary to year 2. Through active learning experiences, students will have the opportunity to examine strategies for developing sequential learning experiences in the early primary years using developmentally appropriate songs, rhymes and instrumental music. Peer-teaching experiences and engagement with current literature will support this work.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed AED4271 or permission required.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply principles of teaching music for childrenin the early primary years.
  2. Use skills and knowledge to support the musical development of children pre-primary to year 2.
  3. Justify the selection of songs, rhymes, and instrumental musicfor specific learning goals.
  4. Execute planning and assessment strategies to support music learning in the early primary years.
  5. Organise strategies for teaching music in the early primary years.

Unit Content

  1. Songs, rhymes and instrumental music
  2. Music skills and knowledge
  3. Music education philosophy, curriculum and policy
  4. Musical development of children
  5. Planning music learning experiences
  6. Micro-teaching

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
PresentationTeaching and Learning Strategies50%
AssignmentPrinciples and Philosophy in Practice50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationTeaching and Learning Strategies50%
AssignmentPrinciples and Philosophy in Practice50%

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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