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Specialist Certificate in Inclusive Music Teaching (SC-IMUSTCH) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
Contact
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Monday to Friday 8am to 9pm AEST/AEDT.
Weekends and University of Melbourne observed Public Holidays 10am to 5pm AEST/AEDT
Principal Coordinator
Grace Thompson
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
- demonstrate an advanced understanding and knowledge of how educational theory and research inform inclusive education music pedagogy;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of critical disability theory;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of the impact of neurodevelopmental conditions and/or learning differences on music skills training;
- critically analyse how educational theories, debates, policies and research informs teaching practice;
- assess, design and evaluate music education programs for a diverse range of music learners;
- interpret and design relevant curriculum and pedagogy to engage a diverse population of music learners;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of how interventionist teaching practices that promote participation and inclusion of diverse music learners;
- make carefully reasoned and appropriately documented decisions relevant to curriculum design for diverse music learners, drawing on appropriate theoretical and research principles and methods;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of practical, safe and supportive approaches to promote positive behaviours.
Generic skills
- – An advanced understanding of the changing knowledge base in the specialist area;
- – Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline;
- – Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship;
- – A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in oral and written presentations;
- – A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work;
- – An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership in the specialist area;
- – The capacity to value and participate in projects which require team-work;
- – An understanding of the significance and value of their knowledge to the wider community (including business and industry);
- – A capacity to engage where appropriate with issues in contemporary society.
Last updated: 18 December 2020