Learning Area Music A 2 (EDUC90464)

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.

• Reflect critically on the ways in which educational theory and research informs music teaching, planning, and advocacy (Graduate Standards 2.1, 3.6).
• Demonstrate strong music and pedagogical content knowledge to create productive learning environments that engage and empower learners in a variety of school cultures (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3).
• Interpret, design and implement relevant curriculum and pedagogy for music across the curriculum that integrates digital technologies and differentiated teaching to engage all students in their learning (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.4, 7.2).
• Create and maintain safe and supportive learning environments and manage music using knowledge of practical approaches to promote positive behaviours (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5).
• Demonstrate the capacity to reflect upon practice and extend professional learning through teacher practitioner inquiry and research (Graduate Standard 3.6).

Generic skills

This subject 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