Course Title: Integrating the Arts

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Integrating the Arts

Credit Points: 12


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

TCHE2126

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

360H Education

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2006,
Sem 1 2007,
Sem 1 2010

Course Coordinator: Maree Macmillan

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7809

Course Coordinator Email:maree.macmillan@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Not Applicable


Course Description

Through their investigation of arts concepts, and their development of arts skills, pre-service teachers will be prepared to facilitate children’s learning particularly by immersing them in arts based learning with an emphasis on scaffolding their exploration, experimentation, creative thinking and problem-solving.



Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Capability development/Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this course it is expected that students
will be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of key arts concepts
• Articulate the importance of active learning and problem solving
• Demonstrate the ability to be responsive to children’s curiosity and learning by scaffolding in learning in the arts
• Demonstrate the ability to provide inclusive arts curricula for either primary or early childhood
education settings


Graduate Capabilities

Creative Problem-solvers: Teaching as Inquiry
 Employ reasoning through reframing practice.
 Explore and incorporate a diversity of cultural experiences in solving problems.

Communicative Competencies
 Actively listen and participate in ‘learning conversations’.
 Collaborate in and share decision-making with others.

Critical reflective:
 Critically reflect on planning in action.
 Articulate and critically reflect on learning from experience.
 Employ and generate conceptual frameworks and relate these to similar and dissimilar contexts.
 Use critical reflection to inform and improve future practice.

Lifelong Learners
 Apply the principles of learning and cultivate the capacity to learn within themselves and others.
 Engage critically with content and be adept in ways of accessing information.
 Reflect on, link and apply theory to everyday life.
 Strengthen their teaching practice in reasoned, creative and problem-solving ways by drawing on existing knowledge, skills and experience, keeping abreast of and adapting to new findings, ideas and theories.


At the conclusion of this course it is expected that students
will be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of arts concepts
• Articulate the importance of active learning and
problem solving
• Demonstrate the ability to be responsive to student
curiosity and learning via scaffolding in the arts
• Demonstrate the ability to provide inclusive arts
curricula for EITHER primary OR early childhood
education settings


Overview of Learning Activities

Pre-service teachers will be involved in the following as
applicable:
• Group-based arts and arts education workshops and project work
• Individual research and reflection
• Visits to arts and ECE or Primary school venues
• Planning and/or implementing arts ideas, with links to the wider curriculum
• Arts presentations


Overview of Learning Resources

Lecturers in class will advise references and readings. Students are also expected to refer to arts education texts, current curriculum documents and Journals from the RMIT library and to access online material.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment is negotiated with the lecturer for a primary school or early childhood workplace setting and incorporates project/s integrating visual (50%) and performing arts (50%).