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

    MUE6270
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Jason Adam BORON

Description

This unit provides pre-service teachers with opportunities to research creative and innovative approaches to teaching music in early primary years. Students will participate and critically reflect upon learning strategies for listening, performing, improvising and composing to assist children's understandings of abstract musical concepts. Students will critically analyse learning experiences and appropriate resources that incorporate music, creativity and relevant general capabilities and cross curriculum priorities.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MUE4270

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Formulate innovative and creative approaches to music teaching in the early primary years.
  2. Critically analyse learning strategies to develop children's musical literacy with related general capabilities and cross-curricular priorities.
  3. Investigate, analyse and synthesise music education theories to inform best practice in teaching music in the early primary schools.
  4. Critically analyse and justify the use of music teaching resources to support best practice.
  5. Develop authentic programs of learning in the Arts (Music) with strategies for continuous assessment and reporting.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary approaches to music teaching in early primary years.
  2. Music and child-centred learning as part of a creative teaching approach.
  3. Teaching and learning based on contemporary curriculum documents related to music, creativity and related general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.
  4. Critical examination of music teaching resources.
  5. Strategies for planning, assessing and reflection using current state and national frameworks.

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
PresentationPresentation50%
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

    MUE6270
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • 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 evaluate strategies for developing sequential learning experiences in the early primary years using developmentally appropriate songs, rhymes and instrumental music. Critical analysis and reflection of peer-teaching and contemporary literature will support this work.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in AED6271, or permission required.

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in AED6271.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MUE4270

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse principles of teaching music to children in the early primary years
  2. Evaluate the professional skills and knowledge required to support the musical development of children in pre-primary to year 2.
  3. Critique the selection of songs, rhymes, and instrumental music for varied learning goals.
  4. Design learning and assessment programs for children in pre-primary to year 2
  5. Synthesise strategies for teaching music in the early primary years informed by literature

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%

Core Reading(s)

  • Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia, Queensland Branch. (2018). [DVD]. 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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