Learning Area Music B 2 (EDUC90466)

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 in the co-curricular context (Graduate Standards 2.1, 3.6).
• Demonstrate strong music and pedagogical content knowledge to create productive co-curricular environments that engage and empower learners across a variety of youth 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 co-curricular music 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, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.4).
• Create and maintain safe and supportive music learning environments inside and outside the classroom 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 Standards 3.6).
• Reflect critically on the ways in which educational theory and research informs music teaching, planning, and advocacy (Graduate Standards 2.1, 3.6).

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