Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

As future primary teachers, you will benefit from an introduction to Dance and Drama as curriculum areas that will enhance and enrich teaching and learning in the primary classroom. This unit focuses on the Dance and Drama strands of The Arts Essential Learnings with priority given to the Primary school years 1 to 7. These strands are addressed within the context of key concepts, core content and assessment dimensions which form the basis for this syllabus. Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary and cross- KLA (Key Learning Area) planning for teaching and learning in Dance and Drama.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to introduce you to the pedagogies of primary Dance and Drama education and to curriculum-related artistic practice related to these two art forms. The unit will enable you to develop curricular programs consistent with the Dance and Drama strands of The Arts Essential Learnings, through practical workshops, to develop effective teaching practice.

Objectives

On completion of the unit you should be able to:
1. design learning experience programs that draw upon pedagogical, curriculum and assessment knowledge and skills, to respond to the diverse abilities and interests of all learners
2. model and promote inquiring, cooperative and independent approaches to learning;
3. draw on a range of teaching strategies in ways that align with pedagogical intentions;
4. employ accountable and theoretically grounded processes to monitor and assess student understanding and progress, including the outcomes-based assessment criteria.

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
- Key concepts of Dance/Drama pedagogies
- Planning and writing Dance and Drama curriculum units
- Planning and teaching Dance and Drama experiences
- Curriculum-based artistic practice in Dance and Drama
- Integrated curricular, cross-curricular and wider educational priorities

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit features a combination of lectures and practical workshops. The lecture series will address key concepts of Dance/Drama primary education pedagogies and teacher artist; levels, core content, core learning outcomes, and assessment in relation to planning, teaching and learning in Dance and Drama; models for planning curriculum units and student reporting; models for curriculum integration and complementary learning; cross-curricular priorities of literacy, numeracy, life-skills, and futures perspective; wider educational priorities of productive pedagogies, new basics and rich tasks; models of community Arts support for classroom teachers. The practical workshops will provide you with opportunities to develop art-making and teaching skills for the primary classroom in Dance and Drama. Led by your tutor, you will experience in a practical way key art-making activities in Dance and Drama. You will have opportunities to discuss and develop curriculum planning ideas with your tutor. Each week you will be required to engage with and reflect on key readings which extend and amplify the understandings gained in lectures and workshops. Teaching and learning in this unit will be supported by an online teaching site including a Course Materials Database.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
The unit coordinator and tutors will be available throughout the semester to provide advice and feedback on the development of both the curriculum project and micro teaching episode. Weight 0%.

Assessment name: Professional Plans
Description: (Summative) Teaching Episode. You will plan and teach an Arts experience in both Dance and Drama demonstrating syllabus knowledge, artistic practice and facility as a teacher-artist. Following the presentation you will reflect on the lesson and respond to critiques by the tutor and other students.
Relates to objectives: 1-3
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Early Semester

Assessment name: Project
Description: (Summative) You will design a Dance/Drama primary curriculum unit. Your unit will show knowledge and understanding of levels, core learning outcomes, assessment opportunities, integrated curricular, cross-curricular and wider educational priorities. The unit coordinator and tutors will be available in workshops and via email to provide feedback and advice on curriculum project planning.
Relates to objectives: All
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Texts

The Arts Years 1 to 10 Syllabus, (2002) Queensland Studies Authority.

Recommended Texts
The Arts Essential Learnings, (2008) CD ROM, Queensland Studies Authority.
Buck, R. (1998) Everyone can dance - Inclusive dance strategies for Years 1-10, Brisbane: Education Queensland, pp. 12-23.
O'Toole, J. & Dunn, J. (2002)Pretending to Learn: Helping children learn through Drama, Australia: Longman.
Stinson, M. & Wall, D. (2003) Dramactive, Australia: McGraw Hill Education.
Woolland, B. (1993)The Teaching of Drama in the Primary School, England: Longman.
Wright, Susan (2012) Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts, Sydney, Pearson Australia

Risk assessment statement

Dance: The study in this unit involves physical involvement in creative workshops in dance studios and performance venues. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance activities. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimises potential injury is a high priority with all lecturing staff. You will be introduced to safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that you will apply them in this unit.

Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance discipline provides the necessary duty of care in emergency situations through its first-aid and health and safety officers at all venues in which students are required to participate in this unit.

Drama: Workshop activities could include low impact risks including minor falls, trips and slips. Every effort is made by Performance Studies staff at QUT to ensure that you work in a safe environment. You are expected to follow all safety rules and directions, and to ensure you do not put at risk the safety of others in any way.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 17-Sep-2012