483-230 Learning Area (Primary): Arts

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Teachers, Inquiry & Learning 2; School Experience and Practice Teaching 1.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject presents the arts as a key learning area in primary education. Students study teaching strategies and developmental learning in relation to children's education in the arts, with a particular focus on drama, music and visual arts. Students will engage in theoretical studies and practical drama, music and visual arts workshops to inform their understanding and knowledge of the teaching of the arts in primary schools. Students will develop a thorough understanding of the Arts Curriculum and Standards Framework and the application of the sub-strands: creating, making and presenting, arts criticism and aesthetics and past and present contexts to primary arts curriculum. The subject will focus on the skills required to design, implement and evaluate drama, music and visual arts programs for the primary school.

Assessment

Written assignments, curriculum projects, visual arts folio and performance projects equivalent to 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

• Department of School Education, Curriculum Standards Framework: The Arts. Department of School Education Victoria 1995.