Child Play with Literacy and Creative Pedagogy

Overview

In this unit, students develop the skills and knowledge required to teach Literacy and the Arts in early childhood. Throughout the unit students will develop an understanding of creative pedagogies that support children’s self-expression, imagination and creativity. They will investigate how children’s literacy and language can be developed through stories and dramatic dimensions and how the Arts contributes to the learning in the lives of children. The application of multiple methods of communication to create meaning will be undertaken. Students will also undertake professional experience for 15 days with children aged 0-2 years in an approved early childhood setting.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Students must achieve a minimum overall score of 70% for the Professional Experience Placement Report, including meeting the Early Childhood National Quality Standards (NQS) Elements 2.2.2 (Incident and Emergency Management), 2.2.3 (Child Protection), 4.2.2 (Professional Standards and 7.1.3 (Roles and Responsibilities)
This report is assessed on a four-point scale:

• Not met (0%-49%)
• At risk (50%-69%)
• Met (70%-89%)
• Exceeding (90%-100%).

Students who achieve an ‘At Risk’ result will be offered one opportunity to improve their assessment through an appropriate supplementary task determined by the Unit Convenor.

This hurdle requirement is in line with Initial Teacher Education Accreditation and meets the National Program Standard 5.4 (Professional Experience-Providers work with their placement school(s)/systems to achieve a rigorous approach to the assessment of pre-service teachers’ achievements against the Graduate Teacher Standards) set by the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership that partner with State Teacher Education registration organisations to register all qualified Early Childhood Teachers

Content

• The historical and contemporary pedagogical frameworks and contexts for creative arts
• Teaching methods and strategies including curriculum approaches and play based pedagogies that promote Literacy,
• The Early Years Learning Framework Arts based curricula and creative pedagogies
• Visual and aesthetic dimensions.
• Musical and rhythmic dimensions.
• Story narrative and dramatic dimensions
• Inclusive curriculum and indigenous perspectives in music, dance, drama and visual arts experiences
• Strategies for children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English
• The role of the teacher in curriculum planning, facilitating children's creative, aesthetic, musical and dramatic development and confidence.
• Programming and evaluation, music, creative movement, and drama
• Resources for children birth – 5 years.
• Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
• Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
• Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
• Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy