EDF5179 · Visual art and design education in the secondary years 1A

Overview

This unit enables you to develop skills in lesson planning for diverse student learners and to confidently approach your initial pre-service classroom experiences in visual art and design. Working collaboratively and independently, you will build understanding and knowledge of the ways in which visual art and design pedagogy can be considered in practical terms and the corresponding nature of professional identity for the specialist art and design teacher. The assessment tasks provide opportunities for you to engage at a theoretical and practical level with critical curriculum models (from Australia and overseas) and to apply your knowledge of this theory in your developing art and design pedagogy, including the incorporation of digital technologies. The emphasis is on exploring classroom practice and curriculum design, offering you opportunities to understand and identify with the professional responsibilities specific to learning and teaching in the disciplines that inform visual art and design curriculum practice.

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. understand the structural issues relevant to lessons and units of work in visual art and design
2. critically determine, and select appropriate content for units of work in visual art and design
3. devise tasks and activities for teaching and learning in visual art and design suitable for diverse learners in a range of educational settings
4. identify important pedagogical issues in visual art and design educational theory
5. apply critical theoretical and conceptual issues to the evaluation of specific examples of visual art and design curriculum practice.

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.