» Age Range 8 to 12: Curricula/ Syllabi

ABC Keys to Music – listen to a 4-part series of audio podcasts from May 2009. Richard Gill and Graham Abbott discuss the importance of quality school Music Education for all Australian children.

(Scroll down the webpage to the heading “Music Education Series”)

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Go to resource: arts action, published by the Department of Education and Training (NSW) is a CD-rom created to supplement the NSW K-6 Creative Arts Syllabus.  It consists of lesson examples, work samples, and units, relating to music, dance, drama, and art.

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Go to resource: Arts in Education is published by the Australia Council 2004. This document outlines arts curricula in each state, and provides links to the bodies who develop and monitor these.

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Go to resource: The Arts Learning Area (NT Curriculum Framework) provides the framework for teaching arts in Northern Territory schools. The document is provided as a pdf link on the NT site, and is published by the Department of Education and Training, NT Government.

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Go to resource: The Arts Learning Framework outlines ideas and outcomes for the teaching of the Arts at all stages of learning according to the South Australian curriculum. The framework is organised according to four stages of learning, and demonstrates cross-curriculum links with literacy, numeracy, and ICT. Suitable resources are also recommended according to each stage. The framework is published by SACSA (South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability) under the Department of Education, Training and Employment, SA.

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Go to resource: The Australian Curriculum Corporation is a one-stop site that provides online links to all Australian curricula. The Curriculum Corporation, a partnership of all Australian Education Ministers, provides resources that add to student learning experiences across Australia. The site also has links to publications and sites that are suitable resources for teachers.

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Go to resource: The CEO Creative Arts Primary Curriculum (NSW) is the arts curriculum for NSW Catholic schools.

The disciplines covered include visual arts, music, dance, and drama. Foundation statements about goals of each learning stage are given.

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www.charangamusic.com.au/site

Charanga is a digital learning community for music education – once paid up and subscribed, you have access to digital lesson materials and support.

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Go to resource: Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts by Claudia Cornett (2006) is a textbook specifically for classroom teachers. It covers the integration of the arts throughout the curriculum and examines the four arts streams (Dance, Drama, Music, Visual Art). It is published by Merrill/Prentice-Hall.

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Go to resource: The Creative Arts Syllabus K-6 (NSW) outlines the areas of the arts which are to be implemented in NSW schools. Foundation statements, planning advice, worksamples, and units of work related to the syllabus are available through the site.

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Go to resource: The Curriculum Framework Learning Statement for the Arts is published by the Curriculum Council of WA, 1998. It covers the reasoning for the Kindergarten to Year 12 Arts framework, which includes dance, drama, media, music, and visual arts. There are four outcomes that the framework is built around: arts ideas; arts skills and processes; arts responses; arts in society. The scope of the curriculum is explained, including processes, elements, skills, and types of learning experiences. Phases of learning and development are outlined. Other information including assessment, links with the curriculum goals and other subjects, is also given.

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Go to resource: Curriculum Press is run by the Curriculum Corporation and provides suitable resources (books, dvds, websites) for use in schools across a wide range of subject areas, including The Arts. Some of these resources can be downloaded through Curriculum Press Express.

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Go to resource: Curriculum Support – Creative Arts K-6 (NSW) is a site published by the NSW Department of Education and Training that offers extra resources for teaching creative arts in NSW schools. The site has links to the NSW artists in schools program, curriculum resources such as Vocal Ease and the Arts Action CD-Rom, and the Creative Arts syllabus.

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Go to resource: Every Chance to Learn – Curriculum Framework for ACT Schools, published by the ACT Government, provides a framework for government and non-government schools to plan and implement curriculum. It is structured according to stages of learning. The site also has links to general curriculum resources, interdisciplinary and disciplinary ELAs (Essential Learning Areas), and resources for planning learning units.

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http://artspop.yodelservices.com/

Each of the Arts has a number of units designed to complement the National Curriculum. Scroll to the bottom and choose “Music”!

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Beginning in Term 1 201, Jozzbeat will be hosting a national project called ‘JellyMusic 2012′ that aims to have 500+ Primary Classrooms around Australia all working with a comprehensive library of quality P-7 music resources.

JellyMusic is an exciting new subscription service for Australian classrooms, including software that runs on Interactive Whiteboards and Digital Projectors and comes with a wide range of age appropriate repertoire and activities.

‘Music. Play For Life’ are supporting by hosting the ‘Community and Contact’ zone. This will be a blog-type zone where all participating schools and teachers can communicate and share teaching ideas. We aim to produce valuable research data on how music is being run in school classrooms across Australia, which we will tender to ACARA (the National Curriculum body).

We are looking at a number of 2-3 hour national ‘induction’ workshops to kick off the project. We could certainly look at putting one on in your area with a good number of schools represented.

You (or your schools) can sign up for the project at www.jozzbeat.com/jellymusic-signup

Schools can participate for FREE (that’s right…FREE!), or additionally you can choose to pay for a whole year’s content.

To kickstart the project Jozzbeat will be providing free induction workshops to help all teachers (Classroom and Specialist) get comfortable with both the technology and the teaching and material. These workshops will occur in key centres across Australia where school numbers warrant, and online.

Please send queries to: info@jozzbeat.com

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MusicTime! Great Classroom Ideas for Years 5 – 8

Presented by Dr Ros McMillan

Want to finish Semester 1 fired with enthusiasm for Term 3? This workshop, designed for teachers of students in Years 5 – 8, will provide participants with a wealth of ideas for units of work as well as one-off activities that will appeal to students from upper primary to junior secondary.

This is not an easy group to cater for as many Year 7s will experience music for the first – and last! – time in their lives in this school year, while Year 8 students can be one of the most difficult age-groups to engage in music-making of any kind. Upper primary school students, too, are not always the amenable students of earlier years, with most of them having strong views on what makes music as a school subject ‘good’.

Thus, Year 5 – 8 teachers face the difficult task of planning a curriculum that is enjoyable and relevant for their students as well as fulfilling to teach. At the same time they may be required to provide music classes for a one-year, or even one-semester, subject that their school administration believes is all that students need to continue the study of music in later school years.

Working with typical classroom resources, participants at this workshop will be assisted to plan stimulating and rewarding lessons for students of all abilities. Through a variety of hands-on activities, teachers will be shown how to fulfil the requirements of the new Australian Curriculum, one in which a rich, creative and coherent curriculum is at the centre.

COST
$130.00 (members)
$190.00 (non-members)

DATE
Friday 24 June

TIME
9.30am – 3.30pm

VENUE
Statewide Resources Centre
150 Palmerston Street, Carlton
Melway reference — Map 2B:H6

Booking essential
Lunch is provided

http://amuse.vic.edu.au/2011_PL/ros_mcmillan.htm

Ros McMillan has been teaching and researching music education for almost 50 years, including 20 years at the University of Melbourne where she was Senior Lecturer then Head of Music Education, and 13 years as Director of Music at the PresbyterianLadies’ College, Melbourne. For the last decade she has been writing music workbooks for teachers and students with over 10,000 students using her books. Ros is a keyboard player, specialising in improvisation.

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free podcasts – Musica Viva held a discussion forum in February 2011 on the topic of Arts Education in Australia. They recorded the sessions and have made them available online as a 4-part podcast. Click on the arrow on the far right of each clip to download it (for later listening) OR listen online to each podcast.

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A new draft version of the Australian Curriculum; The Arts is able to be viewed through the ACARA website at present. While not officially available for consultation, the lates rough draft (Feb 2013) can be viewed by following the pathway outlined below. Please note that it is not in an online format but has all the wording of the main pages as well as all the boxes of extra information available through links. As a result the document is not formatted.

All those who are trying to prepare units of work ready for the 2014 implementation of the new Curriculum will have the most up-to-date information from ACARA by viewing this draft. There are many changes from the draft released for consultation late last year.

To find the draft version, go to www.acara.edu.au

From the Home page, use the top menu to access the “Curriculum” page.

Select The Arts F-10

Read the information about Validation of Assessment standards.

In that paragraph, click on the words ‘draft in progress‘ and the document will open.

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http://australianmusiceducators.ning.com/ is an Australian discussion forum for music educators.  It was set up with the intent of discussing ideas on classroom band programs, but it really is a forum for discussion on any aspect of Australian music teaching from P-12.  At present there is a small group of members, but I am hoping to build it up and draw on a wide range of professional knowledge and experience.

This group is completely FREE (in a monetary sense, not a moral or metaphysical sense).

Please come along and check it out.  The page is run as a ning, which is basically a social network with a particular focus.  It is great for online discussion, linking of video and photo and has facility for you to blog.  All you need to do is create an account.

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As at the end of January, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which is managing the creation of the National Curriculum, had received over 1,600 online consultation responses and 166 written submissions to the draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. Respondents included classroom teachers, curriculum authorities, parents, industry groups and university lecturers.

The extensive feedback on the draft shape paper is being analysed and the resulting consultation report will be considered by the ACARA Curriculum Committee in April 2011. The consultation report will inform the revision of the draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: the Arts resulting in a final shape paper which will guide the writing of the Arts curriculum.

The curriculum development schedule from here on is:

• Final Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts: published June 2011

• Broad outline of the arts curriculum; scope and sequence:  July – September 2011

• Content descriptions (and elaborations) and achievement standards: September – December 2011

• National consultation: 2012

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Go to resource: Resourcing the Curriculum – Arts (WA) is a government website offering support for the implementation of arts teaching in schools. Links to relevant and recommended websites are offered on the site. The site is published by the Department of Education, WA.

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Go to resource: Sync or swing is published by the NSW Department of Education and Training and provides support for teaching music K-6. It includes an audio CD, and ties in with the Creative Arts syllabus (NSW).

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Go to resource: The Arts Curriculum Area (Tas) covers the disciplines of dance, drama, media, music, and visual art, and provides information on the implementation of this learning area. The document is published by the Department of Education, Tasmanian Government.

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Go to resource: The Arts K-10 Syllabus (WA) support the WA Curriculum Framework and offers advice to teachers on the teaching of arts content. Dance, drama, media, music, visual arts, and combinations of these artforms, are covered in the syllabus. The syllabus is divided into three stages: early childhood, middle childhood, and early adolescence. The document is published by the Department of Education and Training, WA.

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Go to resource: The Song Room offers music programs to school students, particularly those who have no access to music teachers, and disadvantaged students. Their aim is to create self-sustaining music programs in schools.Their programs include professional support for teachers, families, implementation of long term music programs in schools, partnerships with industry and community music groups, and research. Schools can become members of the Song Room and receive access to the website, resources, and training.

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Go to resource: The UK National Curriculum for Music (Stages 1 and 2) outlines the statutory program of study from 1999.This includes key stages, attainment targets, and further advice on assessment. In addition, support materials including downloadable units can be found here.

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musiced.nafme.org/resources/national-standards-for-music-education

1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.

5. Reading and notating music.

6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

7. Evaluating music and music performances.

8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.

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Go to resource: Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) for The Arts set out the structure of arts learning in Victorian public schools.

VELS are published by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The site has links to resources, sample units, assessment maps and other information to support implementation of the arts domain.

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