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Overview

In this subject, pre-service teachers (PSTs) will develop their understanding of what it means to be a senior secondary Arts educator (Drama or Media or Visual Arts). In this subject, PSTs will engage critically with approaches to curriculum, pedagogy, planning, designing, assessing and evaluating appropriate to Arts education as well … For more content click the Read more button below. PSTs will be introduced to relevant curriculum and pedagogical theories, developing, and justifying a pedagogical approach towards Arts education. They will engage in critique of a selected senior secondary Arts curriculum document within the context of high stakes examinations and employ the Understanding by Design (UbD) planning model to design an appropriate senior secondary assessment task and rubric and to ‘backwards design’ a learning and teaching sequence appropriate to prepare senior secondary learners for the task

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Office of the Provost

School

Education

Subject coordinator

Adam Staples

Subject type

Undergraduate

Year level

Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

AQF level

Level 8 – Bachelor Degree Honours

Available as elective

No

Available to study abroad / exchange students

No

Capstone subject

No

Academic progress review - Schedule A subject

No

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Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:
1.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content of relevant senior secondary Arts curriculum.
2.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of various pedagogical approaches relevant to teaching senior secondary Arts curriculum.
3.
Demonstrate ability to organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence using knowledge of relevant senior secondary Arts curriculum, SOLO taxonomy and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.
4.
Demonstrate ability to ‘backwards design’ an appropriate learning and teaching sequence using the Understanding by Design (UbD) planning model, knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies (including literacy and numeracy teaching strategies appropriate to Arts).
5.
Demonstrate ability to organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence for summative assessment using knowledge of relevant senior secondary Arts curriculum and UbD planning model, including design and justification of an assessment task and rubric.
6.
Demonstrate ability to organise content into a sequence enabling various forms of diagnostic and formative assessments for the purposes of evaluation, reflection and goal setting, using knowledge of relevant senior secondary Arts curriculum.

Learning activities

You will engage in a range of activities including lectures, workshops, online learning, quizzes, and problem based learning designed to achieve and assess your performance in alignment with the subject’s intended learning outcomes. You will receive timely feedback (formal and informal) about your performance on these activities to support your learning. 

Enrolment rules

Minimum credit point requirement

Requisite rules

Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in one of the following courses: EM002, EM002B, EM002M, EM002S, EM002W, EB002, EB002B, EB002M, EB002S, EB002W, EMTCS, EMTCSB, EMTCSW, EBEDS, EBEDSB, EBEDSM, EMTSCB, AZAAE, AZATS