Week 6: Beyond The Classroom

6th August 2018

This week tutorial was broken into two part.

Part 1: Beyond the The classroom

Big issues we talked about;
• Co-curricular activities
• World's Biggest Classroom
• Teaching Artits
• Musica Vica
• Freshair
• Theater of Image
• School Drama
• Sydney Opera House

Things learned from the reading and discussion:

• Co-curricular activities are are a very good tools to strengthen students' learning as it is bout

discovering:

• talents
• learning leadership skills
• fostering team work 
• resilience and commitment where students and staff actively engage in physical, cultural and intellectual pursuits together, building relationship, understanding and respect beyond the classroom borders.

• This includes: (Week 6 tute pdf)

 Choirs
 Bands
 Dance Ensembles
 Drama Ensembles
 Art exhibitions
 Whole School Musicals
 Talent Quests

Question

A question to self: Do you remember being involved in any of these activities as a young person?

1. Yes, I was involved in a 15 minutes long (short video) drama. This drama was related to Indonesian, and we'd only use Indonesian language throughout the drama. It was filmed, and was shown to the whole school during assembly.

2. Yes, I was involved in a boy band in Year 11. Although we never had the opportunity perform outside school, it still was a valuable experience to be a band.

3. Ongoing involvement: I currently play guitar and bass for our community church services.

Associations Art Education 

Australia http://www.arteducation.org.au/ 

Australian Society of Music Education http://www.asme.edu.au/ 

Music education http://www.musiceducation.edu.au/ 

Drama Australia http://www.dramaaustralia.org.au/ 

Ausdance National http://ausdance.org.au/

Part 2: Useful and Important Documents

Programming: (Week 6 tute's pdf)

• should cater for the diversity of student learning needs at a particular stage. • should ensure that the content of Creative Arts is addressed in accordance with the description in the syllabus.
• the sequencing of learning experiences should enable students to achieve the outcomes.
• should include learning experiences that will develop students’ confidence, enthusiasm, enjoyment and independence in learning in the artforms.
• should enable the continued development of students’ knowledge and understanding, and skills in Visual Arts, Music, Drama and Dance.


Curriculum: it should be the heart of teaching and learning as curriculum plays a significant role in fostering life-long learning competencies, social attitudes, creativity and skills

Assessment: it should be fair, valid and sufficient. Type of assessments - self-assessment, peer assessment, feedback.

Reflection:

This week was a bit overwhelming as all assignments are due on the same date. I had a little time to think. Not only that, the content itself is huge. There are so many vital information that has to remembered for future purposes. Other than that, I'd say it was a productive week as well as so much information and ideas are being absorbed in this week tute.

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