Learning Area Visual Arts & Design 2 (EDUC90478)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject teacher candidates should be able to:

Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

• Apply critical reflection to research and practice into how students learn in visual arts and design and evaluate the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective teaching practice, including the creation of effective learning environments. (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.1, 3.2, 3.6, 6.2, & 6.4)
• Synthesise in-depth relevant curriculum and pedagogy design lesson plans and learning sequences, to respond flexibly and actively to the different learning needs of individual students, including those with additional needs. (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 & 3.6)
• Synthesise theoretical understanding and practical skills to select appropriate strategies to set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics for students in visual arts and design. (Graduate Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)
• Examine and analyse appropriate strategies to differentiate teaching in visual arts and design to meet specific needs of students, drawing on digital technologies and literacy and numeracy understandings in order to engage and empower students in their learning Graduate Standards 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.5)
• Evaluate and analyse teaching programs to improve learning and to determine the effectiveness of strategies and resources in visual arts and design. (Graduate Standards 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 & 5.1)
• Evaluate and analyse through identification of assessment strategies including formal and informal diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and to support students’ learning. (Graduate Standards 2.3, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 & 5.1)

Generic skills

MTeach graduates will develop the following set of key transferable skills:

• Clinical reasoning and thinking
• Problem solving
• Evidence based decision making
• Creativity and innovation
• Teamwork and professional collaboration
• Learning to learn and metacognition
• Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
• Reflection for continuous improvement
• Linking theory and practice
• Inquiry and research
• Active and participatory citizenship