Task Description:

Using your choice from the unit plan templates provided in MyLO, or an alternative preferred planning model of your choice, you are required to create a 1500 word overview of a unit plan interpretation for a secondary (7-10) or senior secondary (11-12) class in the area of your first Arts specialisation.

Secondary (Australian Curriculum):

You should choose The Australian Curriculum – The Arts (Version 9.0) in your identified first Arts teaching area (i.e. drama, music, media or visual art). The unit is to be planned for your choice of secondary grade i.e grade 7, 8, 9 or 10), using information from either band 7/8 or 9/10. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/curriculum-information/understand-this-learning-area/the-arts

Senior Secondary (TASC):

You should use the pre-tertiary/senior secondary syllabus/curriculum of the Australian State or Territory in which you currently reside as the basis for your planning. If you are working in Tasmania, please head to TASC’s ‘The Arts’ courses, and plan a unit overview from the course content for a Level 2 or 3 course. All information pertaining to TASC’s ‘The Arts’ courses can be found here: https://www.tasc.tas.gov.au/students/courses/the-arts/

You may like to write a plan that you could discuss with a colleague teacher and/or use during an upcoming PE.

Include a 500 word reflection to accompany your unit plan, commenting on:
- How the plan has been designed to allow you to utilise your Arts pedagogical and content knowledge expertise and strengths
- The considerations you have given to ensure accessibility and inclusion for a specific learning need.

• Note how aspects of the plan can be differentiated for particular learning needs. You can contextualise as appropriate for the diverse learning needs AND/OR culturally and linguistically diverse groups you identify.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.2, 2.3, 1.5, 3.2

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

Task Description:

You are required to submit a PebblePad portfolio comprising completion of Part A plus Part B. The portfolio is to be shared for assessment via PebblePad, with the documentations therein comprising format/s of your choice: eg. Text, visual, video, audio.

Part A:
Module 2 is where you encounter and engage with pedagogical content knowledge pertaining to your Arts teaching specialisation. Part A of your Art Pedagogies Portfolio asks you to document four concise critical reflections that speak to the learning outcomes you have arrived at following your completion of four exercises/activities described in Module 2.

There are a diverse range of learning exercises/activities described across the Module 2 pedagogical content that you will work through and complete over the duration of the module. Your four Part A documentations must indicate which four Module 2 exercises/activities provide the basis for critically reflecting upon your arrival at specific learning outcomes.

Having engaged fully with your Module 2 content and completed all learning activities described therein, it is expected that your Part A documentations will go beyond simply describing what you did in your completion of four Module 2 learning exercises/activities. Rather, your four documentations of learning provide opportunity for you to reflect upon and articulate the ways your Module 2 learning experience has furthered your pedagogical content knowledge.

Part B:
Contact a teacher currently working in your area of first discipline specialisation and ask them about a specific challenge they have faced in one of the following areas:
- Resourcing learning
- Creating the right environment for learning
- Managing learning relationships

Look up your required text (for your first discipline specialisation) to see if there is further advice or alternative options for addressing the challenge the teacher raised.

Drawing on the interviewed teacher’s perspectives, Module 2 resources, and your textbook, write an evidence informed critical reflection (drawing on your interviewed teachers’ perspective, scholarship from your required text and/or other relevant readings from across Module 2) in response to this challenge, and what pedagogical strategies you envisage deploying to approach and address it. Your reflection should go beyond description and offer compelling accounts of why and how you feel your chosen particular pedagogical strategies can support successful navigation of this challenge, and the implications this has for quality arts education teaching and learning.

Notes: Please use the Assessment Task 2 discussion board to share and troubleshoot ideas/possibilities for how you envisage documenting your responses for Part A and B at least two weeks in advance of the assessment task due date.
Regular participation in, review of and contribution to online discussions/zoom tutorials pertaining to Module 2 and this assessment task is advised.

It is up to you how you wish to distribute the total 2000 word count across your response to Part A and Part B. As a guide, past students usually opt for a slightly larger word count for Part A, around 1200 and Part B 800.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1, 1.2, 3.3

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 12

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION