ECA415 - Teaching Primary Creative and Performing Arts 2
| Year: | 2026 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | From 2028: Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E359 |
| Prerequisite: | ECA215 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECA311 |
| 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 - campus: | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| 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
In this unit, you will select one of the following three art form options as your focus: 1. Music 2. Dance/Drama or 3. Visual Arts/Media Arts. As you engage in greater depth with your selected art form option, you will continue to reflect on your responsibilities as a primary educator to advocate for and action quality, arts-curriculum-aligned learning and teaching in primary school contexts. Children need the arts in their lives more than ever to playfully explore ideas and meanings in unique, imaginative and creative ways. This unit will enable you to design multi-modal and embodied ways for children to think, make, and respond creatively as artists and as audiences to the ambiguities and challenges of life in a rapidly transitioning, digital world. To demonstrate your understanding of how to implement the arts with young people to address real-life issues, you will integrate your arts-form-specific knowledge and skills with one or two other curriculum areas to critically and creatively respond to the specific learning needs, challenges and interests of a fictitious or real school context. You will create an artwork, creative resource, or performance that will form an integral part of a well-scaffolded learning and teaching sequence that responds to and addresses the learning needs, concerns and interests of a fictitious or real (unidentifiable) school community or cohort. You will present your creative responses to your peers, who will all work in groups to provide each of the peer-presenters with generative feedback and comments for future learning.
Unit fee information
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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