During this week I was introduced to the different aspect of Creative Arts Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy.

• -          Introduction to unit assessor, and lecturers
• -          The unit itself and its content
• -          Assignments and online activities

• ·        Dance – expressive movements that merges the physical with intellectual, emotion and even spiritual. It is a powerful art form that incorporates body as a mean of communication. It has the capacity to unites people across boundaries of culture, tradition, language; gender and ability.
• ·         Drama - an effective way of engaging learning where participants recognise and associates with roles and situations to be able to engage with, explore and understand the world they live in.
• ·         Music - the art of combining sounds of varying pitch to produce a coherent composition that is melodious, harmonious, intelligible, and expressive of ideas and emotions.
• ·         Visual Arts - art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film making and architecture.

The Importance of Arts

Art is important because it helps and encourages kids to express themselves; it also  helps kids in developing their cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Art lends itself to physical development and the enhancement of fine and gross motor skills.

-          I have a dream to teach the idea that art is not just a thing, but a way for things.
-          Education should be a tool that nurtures growth in creativity
-          All the activities I get to interact are great and fun

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Dance

Drama

through a few activities. First, we had a warm up with mirroring movement. With this, we tried to acted out our daily activities: waking up, brushing, showering, breakfast and off to class.


In class, we've explored the correlation between dance, curriculum, literacy and numeracy.

Dance is taught as an individual art form.
It appears within other Art forms.
Dance be utilized to suit other area of learning as well. For example, HSIE or Music.

Literacy is much more than just the ability to read and write: it is also about understanding 'purposes'. As such, in dance meaning is often conveyed through movement using symbols and gestures. Therefore, dance be used to reinforce students understanding of different text types including factual and literary texts; descriptions; recounts; procedures; discussions; personal responses; narratives etc.

Space, time, relationships and structure are directly links to mathematics.


Drama + Curriculum + Numeracy

Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use materials as they explore a range of forms, styles and contexts. - Australian Curriculum

Dramatic play allows children to experiment with purposes for literacy they've seen at home.
Dramatic play allows children to recognize that different tasks require different texts.
Dramatic play allows kids to produce a wide range of variety of texts.
Dramatic play builds comprehension by allowing children to act out familiar stories.

We explore numeracy when looking at space and shape awareness, direction, the elements of drama, sequencing and structure, size plains, movement pathways, probability, proxemics, budgeting, the elements of production, set design, given circumstances of characters, and dramatic forms.




Alternation:

Tehereh did a mirroring activity as a warm up that focuses on expressing ourselves through trying to act out a certain situation. E.g. waking in the morning or drinking coffee. I think, for a warm up activity, I would go with 'Follow The Leader' where a nominated/volunteer could do some kind of body and facial movements and everyone follow it.



Reflection:

By the end of the lesson, I have a better understanding of the importance of dance and drama in the aspect of learning. Dance and Drama not only promotes literacy and numeracy skills, it also develop (non-cognitive skills) a better study skills, social skills, strategies, teamwork, response to stress, and even goal setting.

using tableau.

Warm up: 

In group, students create a tableau that describe the people. As each individual act are different each student name and describe their action.

Activity 1:

Students become a character in the picture. The audience guess who/what he/she is.