EDUC91054 Early education
Assignment 2: Arts Teaching Portfolio
Assessment overview
The purpose of this task is to design an arts-based inquiry project for ECEC teaching and learning. You will create and curate arts teaching resource designed to engage young children’s learning in and through the Arts. This task is a digitalised Arts Teaching Portfolio that will consist of a collection of Arts teaching resources and strategies, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, for an inquiry project for teaching in and through the Arts in ECEC. You will also identify a professional learning need that will develop your own capacity, confidence and agency for teaching in and through the Arts. This Arts Teaching Portfolio resource will be supported by Arts educational literature (10) and with clear alignment to the VEYLDF and EYLF.
Assessment details
This task has four parts and asks you to imagine you are a teacher in an early childhood centre. The location of the centre is your choice and should inform. your Arts Project (for example, a setting by the Birrarung River and the project is an inquiry into the 'mists and shadows' of the river; a setting in the city and the project is an inquiry into the 'sounds of our city').
1) Project Topic and Setting (approx. 400 words)
Image you are the teacher working in your chosen early childhood setting. Select a topic and develop a rationale for the implementation of an ECEC arts-based inquiry project suitable for young children (stipulate whether your room is infant/toddlers or kindergarten). Justify why you have chosen this inquiry project and how it aligns to your centre location.
2) Arts Resources (approx. 1000 words equiv.)
Create and curate 6 arts-based teaching resources and explain how they can be used in the arts-based learning inquiry project. Ensure you include at least one from each artform. and two with an Indigenous focus (The resource you co-create in Week 8 can be included). Explain and justify why you included each of your resources for your project and describe how you will use each one.
3) Introductory Session (approx. 1200 words)
As the teacher plan the project’s first learning experience to introduce the project topic to the children. This plan will be adult-led learning (DET, 2016, p. 15), however remember the child's voice is a vital part of teaching in and through the arts in early childhood. The plan should be written so another early childhood professional could implement the experience. Information to include:
● space design/description
● outline of the plans learning objectives for children
● sequencing of the lesson plan, including how to use two of the specific art-based resources taken from Part 2
● teaching strategies, including ways to elicit the voices of children and questions to provoke the children's curiosity
4) Professional Arts Learning (approx. 400 words)
Thinking ahead to your future teaching, reflect on your capacity, confidence and agency for teaching in and through the Arts. Identify a future professional learning need to develop your own skills as an arts teacher, include your professional development with links to website/s.
Assessment Criteria
1. Select a topic and develop a rationale for implementation of an ECEC arts-based inquiry project
2. Create and curate teaching resources and explain how each align to the arts-based inquiry project
3. Demonstrate knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives for teaching in and through the arts
4. Outline a detailed introductory lesson plan for your arts-based inquiry project
5. Reflect on a personal professional learning need to develop teaching in and through the arts
6. Communicate through academic writing and use of research/literature