Course overview
To develop knowledge of appropriate educational policy, curriculum planning and resourcing, multiliteracies in the arts; new technologies, 'best' contemporary arts practice, authentic evaluation, assessment and reporting.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop long term planning and evaluation skills focusing upon arts curriculum perspectives including inclusivity, multiculturalism, visual cultures, new learning technologies, and visual literacies
- Critically analyse arts curriculum documents
- Demonstrate understanding of authentic assessment practices applicable to the visual and performing arts
- Demonstrate ability to use multiple forms of literacy to understand, analyse and interpret aesthetic intentionality in visual, performing and media arts
- Develop teaching strategies that will assist school students to apply the language of arts to communicate ideas and feelings in visual, performing and media art forms
- Develop understanding of cross-curricular links, including literacy, numeracy and the use of ICT in the Arts