Curriculum Method 2: Visual Arts

Abstract

In this subject, students develop and deepen their understanding of secondary Visual Arts education, 7-12, with a focus on the NSW Stage 6 Visual Arts syllabus. The curriculum involves a practice-based approach that models, analyses and approximates teaching and learning. Students develop their understandings of Visual Arts curriculum, continuums of learning, approaches to pedagogy and assessment in Visual Arts. Students explore the perspectives of learners in Visual Arts, engage in collaborative examinations and approximations of teaching and develop connections to the community. Learning culminates in involvement in a documented online student event and development of a portfolio of professional teaching resources. Forms of assessment include digital presentations, curriculum documents, collaborative learning space development, investigative processes along with simulated assessment and reporting. Assessments focus on the application of knowledge and skills in a series of integrated and authentic practice-based contexts and tasks.

Syllabus

Continuums in art educationThe Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus (2016) including aims, objectives, outcomes, content, course requirements, key terms, assessment and examination materialsHSC performances and submitted works, Visual Arts performance band descriptions and samples of workLife Skills outcomes and content, and sample units of workThe principles and practices of teaching … For more content click the Read More button below.

Continuums in art education
The Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus (2016) including aims, objectives, outcomes, content, course requirements, key terms, assessment and examination materials
HSC performances and submitted works, Visual Arts performance band descriptions and samples of work
Life Skills outcomes and content, and sample units of work
The principles and practices of teaching and learning Visual Arts with a focus on artmaking
Engaging with community
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in Visual Arts
Models of pedagogy for teaching, learning and assessing Visual Arts (Stage 6)
Strategies for teaching and assessing Visual Arts practices (Stage 6)
Supporting students with varying abilities to access the Visual Arts curriculum and demonstrate achievement
The use of digital resources and tools, including the selection of appropriate digital content, to complement teaching strategies, enhance learning sequences and meet curriculum, assessment and reporting requirements in Visual Arts (Stage 6)
Management practices for Visual Arts teachers including safety and risk management, budgeting, selecting, storing, maintaining and replacing materials, equipment and other resources
NESA assessment requirements for the Higher School Certificate for Visual Arts
Employing ICT applications to support specific syllabus outcomes, content and processes
Assessment and reporting Visual Arts (Stage 6)
Reflection in teaching and learning

Assessment items

1. VAPD, BoW & exhibition development

2. Stage 6 case study

3. Assessment of artmaking

Assumed knowledge

Student has completed subject EMA341 or EMA441 prior to undertaking this subject.

Enrolment restrictions

This subject is available to students in the following courses:
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)
Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
Bachelor of Education (K - 12)
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Industry Entry Program
Bachelor of Educational Studies

or as approved by the Course Director.

Incompatible

Learning resources

Additional resources required by students

NSW Education Standards Authority. (2016). Visual Arts years 11-12: Syllabus. NESA. http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-creative-arts/visual-arts-syllabus http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-creative-arts/visual-design Reading 1.1: Eisner, E. W. (2002). Ten lessons the arts teach. National Art Education Association. Extract from Eisner, E.W. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind. In Chapter 4 What the arts teach and how it … For more content click the Read More button below. Reading 1.5: Eisner, E. (1997). How artistic learning occurs. In E. W. Eisner, Educating Artistic Vision (Chapter 4 pp.65-112). Macmillan Reading 1.6: NSW Syllabus for Visual Arts, Visual Arts Life Skills, Ceramics, Photography, Video and Digital Imaging and Visual Design Reading 2.1: Support documents. Visual Arts Year 7-10 Advice on Programming and Assessment and the Stage 6 Syllabus Support document. Reading 2.2: Case studies in the HSC course. Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus Reading 2.3: NSW HSC Online ‘Case studies’ Reading 2.4: NESA Assessment and Reporting in Visual Arts Stage 6 Document. Reading 3.1: Mathewson Mitchell, D. (2013). Thinking through practice: Exploring ways of knowing, understanding and representing the complexity of teaching, Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 41 (4), 414-425. Reading 3.2: Thomas, K. (2009). Creativity in artmaking as a function of misrecognition in teacher-student relations in the final year of schooling. Studies in Art Education, 51(1), 64-77.Readings 3.4 and 3.5: Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus Reading 3.6: Board of Studies and Educational Standards, NSW. (2014). Assessment and Reporting in Visual Arts Stage 6. BOSTES. Reading 3.7: Look at the standards packages on the following sites. Reading 3.8: Popovich, K. (2006). Designing and implementing exemplary content, curriculum and assessment in art education. Art Education, 59(6), 33-39. Reading 4.1: Carlisle, K (2011). Arts education partnerships: Informing policy through the development of culture and creativity within a collaborative project approach. Arts Education Policy Review, 112(3), 144-148. Reading 4.2: Turk, J. (2012). Collaboration, inclusion and empowerment: A life skills mural. Art Education, November, 50-53. Reading 5.1: Marshall, Julia; D'Adamo, Kimberley. Art Education Art Practice as Research in the Classroom: A New Paradigm in Art Education. Art Education,64(5).12-18

NSW Education Standards Authority. (2016). Visual Arts years 11-12: Syllabus. NESA.

http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-creative-arts/visual-arts-syllabus

http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/stage-6-learning-areas/stage-6-creative-arts/visual-design

Reading 1.1: Eisner, E. W. (2002). Ten lessons the arts teach. National Art Education Association. Extract from Eisner, E.W. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind. In Chapter 4 What the arts teach and how it shows (pp.70-92). Yale University Press.
Reading 1.2: Green, B. (2021). Revisiting the Conceptual Domain: Educational Knowledge and the Visual Arts. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 40(2), 436-448.
Reading 1.3: Hradsky, D. (2022). New Ways of Embedding First Nations Content into the Curriculum.
Reading 1.4: QCAA. (2019). Visual art and Aboriginal knowledges.

Reading 1.5: Eisner, E. (1997). How artistic learning occurs. In E. W. Eisner, Educating Artistic Vision (Chapter 4 pp.65-112). Macmillan

Reading 1.6: NSW Syllabus for Visual Arts, Visual Arts Life Skills, Ceramics, Photography, Video and Digital Imaging and Visual Design

Reading 2.1: Support documents. Visual Arts Year 7-10 Advice on Programming and Assessment and the Stage 6 Syllabus Support document.

Reading 2.2: Case studies in the HSC course. Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus

Reading 2.3: NSW HSC Online ‘Case studies’

Reading 2.4: NESA Assessment and Reporting in Visual Arts Stage 6 Document.

Reading 3.1: Mathewson Mitchell, D. (2013). Thinking through practice: Exploring ways of knowing, understanding and representing the complexity of teaching, Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 41 (4), 414-425.

Reading 3.2: Thomas, K. (2009). Creativity in artmaking as a function of misrecognition in teacher-student relations in the final year of schooling. Studies in Art Education, 51(1), 64-77.
Readings 3.4 and 3.5: Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus

Reading 3.6: Board of Studies and Educational Standards, NSW. (2014). Assessment and Reporting in Visual Arts Stage 6. BOSTES.

Reading 3.7: Look at the standards packages on the following sites.

Reading 3.8: Popovich, K. (2006). Designing and implementing exemplary content, curriculum and assessment in art education. Art Education, 59(6), 33-39.

Reading 4.1: Carlisle, K (2011). Arts education partnerships: Informing policy through the development of culture and creativity within a collaborative project approach. Arts Education Policy Review, 112(3), 144-148.

Reading 4.2: Turk, J. (2012). Collaboration, inclusion and empowerment: A life skills mural. Art Education, November, 50-53.

Reading 5.1: Marshall, Julia; D'Adamo, Kimberley. Art Education Art Practice as Research in the Classroom: A New Paradigm in Art Education. Art Education,64(5).12-18

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