ECA215 - Teaching Primary Creative and Performing Arts 1
| Year: | 2026 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | 2026 Trimester 2: Online From 2027 Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E200, E359 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECA100 |
| Study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | 1 x 3-hour online seminar per week (non-placement weeks) |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This on-campus unit will introduce you to The Arts Curriculum (dance, drama, media arts, music, visual arts) as a compulsory learning area in the Australian Curriculum. You do not need to be an expert in the arts or arts education to address and teach the arts curriculum effectively in primary schools. In this unit, you will learn how to teach the arts in two different but often intersecting ways. The first approach involves planning and teaching the art forms, including dance, drama, media arts, music, and visual arts, using the content descriptors in the art curriculum. This learning in the arts approach may not be viable in many schools due to a lack of staff, arts spaces and resources. The other approach is to integrate one or two art forms from the arts curriculum with other curriculum content to make learning experiences in these areas more hands-on, engaging, and interesting for primary children. This is often referred to as a teaching through the arts approach. In preparation for teaching in and /or through the arts, you will encounter research-informed literature that champions the rich and generative benefits of learning in and through each of the art forms as integral to the development of every child’s imagination, creativity and well-being. At the end of the unit, you will understand how to use the arts and other curriculum areas to plan, resource and construct a cohesive learning sequence for arts and integrated arts learning. This sequence will include a rationale that clearly communicates why the arts are an essential part of the curriculum and how arts knowledge and skills and arts-based pedagogies can contribute significantly to student engagement and learning in and across all areas of primary education.
Unit fee information
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