Learning In and Through Primary Arts (EDUC91082)

This subject introduces and develops Teacher Candidates’ practical and theoretical understandings of learning in and through the Arts and creative pedagogies in the primary classroom. Teacher Candidates engage with the Drama, Music and Visual Arts components of the Australian/Victorian Curricula, investigating their application as individual artforms and across the Arts Learning Area, the Capabilities, and the Cross-Curricular Priorities.

Teacher Candidates are introduced to practical approaches to foreground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in and through the Arts in primary schools. A range of resources (strategies, ideas, tools, techniques, digital technologies) are explored for supporting student participation and engagement in arts-based classroom experiences that cater for diverse learners. Teacher Candidates link their studio practice to relevant theory and school experience to formulate a rationale for their emerging arts pedagogy, with an emphasis on continued professional learning in the arts.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:

• Examine how students learn in the Arts and apply pedagogical content knowledge and understanding of the Arts Learning Area in the Victorian curriculum.
• Integrate educational theories and practical approaches for differentiated teaching in and teaching through the Arts.
• Create a collection of resources (strategies, techniques, processes, ideas, tools, digital technologies/ICT) for planning, organising, sequencing, assessing and evaluating learning programs that support participation and engagement for all learners in arts-based classroom experiences.
• Apply understandings of practical approaches to foreground Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, knowledges and cultures for teaching in and through the Arts.
• Analyse own developing capacity, confidence and agency for teaching in and through the Arts to improve learning.

Generic skills