EDF5168 · Music education in the secondary years 2B

Overview

This unit further develops the understandings of some major teaching and learning methods and ideas useful in contemporary music education. It expands the knowledge and understandings developed in EDF5167 Music education in the secondary years 2A. In particular, the unit explores the knowledge and skills inherent within major music methodologies such as Kodaly, Dalcroze and Orff, and the application of these new understandings to the secondary music classroom. You will be encouraged to share your past experiences in these methodologies and, in doing so, build a better understanding and basis for future practice as an educator. The practical aspects of school music programs will be explored through a research-based piece which evaluates a school instrumental program, underpinned by data gathered while on practicum. The unit employs a pedagogical approach that connects theoretical and experiential learning, understanding these embedded practices to be interrelated and interdependent. This experiential learning is furthered by your previous or current involvement in a musical production. The skills, knowledge and capacities you learn through your involvement in a musical production are applied to the real school musical experience when you lead your own students in the development of a school musical.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. identify and understand significant issues that surround effective teaching and learning in music and communicate these understandings as a clear and coherent exposition of knowledge and ideas to a wider audience
2. adapt the knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit to the planning, management and presentation of a school musical production
3. plan and execute group project work with some independence and be responsible and accountable for your own learning
4. expand your understanding of experiential music teaching and learning and reflect on supporting practices that can enhance school music education
5. understand various crucial music education methodologies and apply these newly developed skills and knowledge in the secondary classroom
6. identify the diversity of strategies, pedagogies and disciplines that will inform your work as a music educator

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.