School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    The Art of Teaching and Learning Music
  • Unit Code

    MUS3120
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Stewart James SMITH

Description

In this unit, students work with educators to study and apply best-practice techniques in instrumental and vocal pedagogy. By highlighting the theory- practice nexus, students acquire the necessary skills and confidence required to teach music in various contexts. In addition, through practice, research and reflection, students become well placed to address technical/stylistic/interpretive shortcomings relating to their personal practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed 1 unit from MUS2364 (Jazz Principal Study 4), MUS2554 (Classical Principal Study 4), MUS2474 (Contemporary Principal Study 4), or MUS2640 (Structures of Composition).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply teaching and learning concepts and strategies relating to a broad range of music.
  2. Plan and deliver lessons for instrumental/vocal students.
  3. Articulate approaches to music pedagogy, interpretation and performance with confidence and authority.
  4. Use cultural understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to formulate teaching and learning strategies that are culturally responsive.

Unit Content

  1. Pedagogical literature and resources, both general and specific to the student's area.
  2. Lesson planning.
  3. Oral communication skills for communicating with learners
  4. Managing relationships and student motivations.
  5. Philosophies and performance insights from a variety of scholar-performers.
  6. Early recordings and/or historically-informed performance (where applicable).
  7. Teaching in cross-cultural contexts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

All music performance students take this unit: classical, contemporary and jazz. Students receive lessons and attend workshops. In addition, students research and reflect on teaching and learning music to a broad range of learners, including Indigenous students.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioTeaching and learning portfolio60%
PerformancePractical assessment40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    The Art of Teaching and Learning Music
  • Unit Code

    MUS3120
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Stewart James SMITH

Description

In this unit, students work with educators to study and apply best-practice techniques in instrumental and vocal pedagogy. By highlighting the theory- practice nexus, students acquire the necessary skills and confidence required to teach music in various contexts. In addition, through practice, research and reflection, students become well placed to address technical/stylistic/interpretive shortcomings relating to their personal practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed 1 unit from MUS2364 (Jazz Principal Study 4), MUS2554 (Classical Principal Study 4), MUS2474 (Contemporary Principal Study 4), or MUS2640 (Structures of Composition).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply teaching and learning concepts and strategies relating to a broad range of music.
  2. Plan and deliver lessons for instrumental/vocal students.
  3. Articulate approaches to music pedagogy, interpretation and performance with confidence and authority.
  4. Use cultural understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to formulate teaching and learning strategies that are culturally responsive.

Unit Content

  1. Pedagogical literature and resources, both general and specific to the student's area.
  2. Lesson planning.
  3. Oral communication skills for communicating with learners
  4. Managing relationships and student motivations.
  5. Philosophies and performance insights from a variety of scholar-performers.
  6. Early recordings and/or historically-informed performance (where applicable).
  7. Teaching in cross-cultural contexts.

Additional Learning Experience Information

All music performance students take this unit: classical, contemporary and jazz. Students receive lessons and attend workshops. In addition, students research and reflect on teaching and learning music to a broad range of learners, including Indigenous students.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioTeaching and learning portfolio60%
PerformancePractical assessment40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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