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Overview of session

•  Arts curriculum in Australia

•  The development of Australian Arts Curriculum

•  Issues and challenges

•  Subject samples

•  Online resources/ Creative Australia

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Australian Curriculum Development

www.acara.edu.au

The Australian Landscape

•  8 separate State/Territory curricula

•  7 include: Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, Visual Arts

1 does not include Media Arts

•  4 use broad framework (eg. Arts ideas, Arts skills & processes, Arts responses & analysis)

•  4 use verb descriptors (eg. compose, appreciate, respond etc)

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Shape of the curriculum

The three dimensions of the curriculum:

•  Learning areas

•  General capabilities

•  Cross-curriculum priorities

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General capabilities

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Cross-curriculum priorities

•  Literacy

•  Numeracy

•  ICT

•  Critical and creative thinking

•  Ethical understanding

•  Personal and social capability

•  Intercultural understanding

•  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

•  Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

•  Sustainability

State-based Issues & Challenges:

•  Transition years

•  Time allocation

•  Teacher availability/training

•  Equity of access

•  Language/terminology

•  Five art forms – state priorities/preferences

The Arts: Organisation

•  Underpinning organisers: Making and Responding

•  Band Descriptions

•  Content Descriptions

•  Content Elaborations

•  Achievement Standards

•  Examples of knowledge & skills

•  Examples of Viewpoint questions

•  Glossary

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Organisation: Assisting the Primary generalist teacher

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Knowledge

Dance Drama Media Arts Music Visual Arts

Elements Elements Elements Elements Elements

Principles Principles Principles

Viewpoints

Form Form Form Form Form

Skills


Techniques

Processes

Organisation: Assisting the Primary generalist teacher

Materials


Body Body Images Body Paint, dyes, charcoal, clay …

Movement Voice Sound Text

Voice Contemporary and emerging materials:

Production Elements Camera, microphone,

Instruments Digital media

Design Elements

Editing software, computer

Sound Sources: Body

Recording/ playback equipment/ software

Sound

Costumes, setting, props

Spaces for composing/ rehearsing/ performing

Objects, sites Audiences

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www.australiancurriculum.edu.au

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•  Screen shot Learning in Dance

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Content descriptions – Content

description Foundation to

Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Content

description Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10

1 Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas

1 Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas

2 Manipulating and applying the elements/concepts with intent

2 Developing understanding of practices

3 Developing and refining understanding of skills and

techniques 4 Structuring and organising ideas

into form

3 Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or display

5 Sharing artworks through performance, presentation or

display

4 Responding to and interpreting artworks

6 Analysing and reflecting upon intentions

7 Examining and connecting artworks in context

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Achievement standard

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•  Understanding

•  Skills

Dance: Achievement standards

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Foundation to Year 2 Achievement Standard By the end of Year 2, students communicate about dances they make, perform and view and where and why people dance.

Students use the elements of dance to make and perform dance sequences and demonstrate safe practice.

Years 7 and 8 Achievement Standard By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse the elements of dance, choreographic devices and production elements in dances in different styles and apply this knowledge in dances they make and perform. They evaluate how they and others from different cultures, times and places communicate meaning and intent through dance.

Students choreograph dances demonstrating manipulation of the elements of dance, choreographic devices and form to communicate choreographic intent. They perform dances which they choreograph and learn with technical and expressive skills appropriate to the dance style.

The Arts

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Online resources

Creative Australia

Online resources

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Creative Australia

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More information … ACARA website www.acara.edu.au •  Shape of the Australian Curriculum

•  Curriculum development process

•  Curriculum design

The Arts: www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/arts.html

ACARA updates http://www.acara.edu.au/news_media/subscribe.html

Contact…

Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 02 8098 3152

Twitter: @ACARAeduau @TheRenza

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