Child Play with Literacy and Creative Pedagogy

Overview

In this unit, students develop the skills and knowledge required to teach Literacy and the Arts in early childhood. Throughout the unit students will develop an understanding of creative pedagogies that support children self-expression, imagination and creativity. They will investigate how children literacy and language can be developed through stories and dramatic dimensions and how the Arts contributes to the learning in the lives of children. The application of multiple methods of communication to create meaning will be undertaken. Students will also undertake professional experience for 10 days with children aged 0-2 years in an approved early childhood setting.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• The historical and contemporary pedagogical frameworks and contexts for creative arts
• Teaching methods and strategies including curriculum approaches and play based pedagogies that promote Literacy,
• The Early Years Learning Framework Arts based curricula and creative pedagogies
• Visual and aesthetic dimensions.
• Musical and rhythmic dimensions.
• Story narrative and dramatic dimensions
• Inclusive curriculum and indigenous perspectives in music, dance, drama and visual arts experiences
• Strategies for children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English
• The role of the teacher in curriculum planning, facilitating children's creative, aesthetic, musical and dramatic development and confidence.
• Programming and evaluation, music, creative movement, and drama
• Resources for children birth 5 years.