Curricula and 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”)

Go to resource: ACARA is responsible for the national curriculum developments, a national assessment program, and collecting data about this.

Read more…

www.mca.org.au/advocacy/2012-papers

Here you will find papers issued by the Music Council of Australia relating to the Australian music industry and music education.

Go to resource: An investigation into the impact of the NSW creative arts K-6 syllabus and teacher education resources on the teaching of music in NSW government primary schools is a Masters thesis, by Julia Brennan, 2006, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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.  Read more…

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.

Go to resource: The Arts Learning Area (NT Curriculum Framework) provides the framework for teaching arts in Northern Territory schools. Read more…

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. Read more…

Go to resource: ARTSsmart (SA) is an arts education strategy for South Australian schools.

Read more…

Please go to the attached link to find details of the Australian Curriculum Conference being held at Toorak College, Mt Eliza on Mon 23 July and Tues 24 July.

http://cpl.conference2012.toorakc.vic.edu.au/ and select the top right hand button “Conference Handbook’

Details of relevant workshops on The Arts and Helen Champion’s Workshop on Mon 23^rd July are available.  Please don’t hesitate to contact me if I can be of further assistance.

Kind regards,

Jenny Stevenson

Head of Music Curriculum

Toorak College

PO Box 150 Mount Eliza 3930

Phone: +613 9788 7260

Fax: +613 9787 5888

Web: www.toorakc.vic.edu.au

ACARA is pleased to invite all members of the Australian Community to participate in a discussion about The Shape of the Australian Curriculum through a “wiki” which has been developed to facilitate exchange between registered users.

To learn more and to find out how to join the conversation, click here.

Go to resource: The Australian Curriculum Corporation is a one-stop site that provides online links to all Australian curricula. Read more…

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

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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.

Go to resource: Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts by Claudia Cornett (2006) is a textbook specifically for classroom teachers. Read more…

Go to resource: The Creative Arts Syllabus K-6 (NSW) outlines the areas of the arts which are to be implemented in NSW schools. Read more…

Go to resource: The Curriculum Framework Learning Statement for the Arts is published by the Curriculum Council of WA, 1998. Read more…

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. Read more…

Go to resource: Curriculum Support – Creative Arts 7-12 (NSW) is a NSW Department of Education and Training site that provides further resources for the teaching of the creative arts in NSW schools. Read more…

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. Read more…

Consultation for the Draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation – Year 10
Presented by the School Music Action Group

Date: Thursday August 16, 2012
Time: 5.00pm- 7.00pm
Presenter: Kim Waldock
Venue: Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank

An opportunity to hear Kim Waldock, member of the advisory panel for the Draft Australian Curriculum: The Arts Foundation – Year 10, and discuss the consultation questions and make comments on the draft.

There is no charge for  this event.

Bookings (online only – click on link below):

http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138968461

Download a PDF copy of the draft curriculum:

http://www.acara.edu.au/arts.html

Download a printable version of the consultation questions from this URL:

http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra would like to invite teachers attending the Australian Curriculum Consultation on Thursday 16 August in Iwaki Auditorium the opportunity to enjoy anexclusive ticket offer of 1X B-Reserve ticket for $75* to the Orchestra’s Act 2 performance of Beethoven and Wagner at the newly refurbished Hamer Hall, which will take place following the meeting, at 8pm.

*Regular price $109. Conditions Apply as follows:

Go to resource: The NSW Education Act, 1990, is a legal document setting out requirements for school education in NSW. Read more…

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. Read more…

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”!

Go to resource: Music for Years 11 to 12 (NSW) is published by the Department of Education and Training NSW.

Read more…

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

The final version of the MCA's comments on the draft national curriculum for
arts and music is at www.mca.org.au under Advocacy, 2012 Papers (or click HERE).

The national curriculum is key to our current strategy to get more music
into schools. The states have agreed to teach the national curriculum. This
cannot happen until they train the teachers to be able to deliver it to the
students. The current draft curriculum offers only the vaguest of benchmarks
for what that training should entail. It does not treat music as a serious
study and should be rewritten.

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.

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.

Go to resource:  The National Education and the Arts statement was jointly made by the Cultural Ministers’ Council and MCEETYA in 2005, and sets out the goals of arts education in Australia. Read more…

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.

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.

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

Go to resource: Resourcing the Curriculum – Arts (WA) is a government website offering support for the implementation of arts teaching in schools. Read more…

Go to resource: Sync or swing is published by the NSW Department of Education and Training and provides support for teaching music K-6. Read more…

Go to resource: TES Connect collates free teacher-created resources from UK. This link is for Secondary Music resources and links. You will need to sign up to view resources – signing up is free and simple.

Go to resource: The Adelaide Declaration, made in 1999, sets out national goals for education as made by members of MCEETYA. Read more…

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. Read more…

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. Read more…

Go to resource: The Arts: Essential Learnings (Qld) are curriculum guidelines published by the Queensland Studies Authority and the Queensland Government, outlining the planning and implementation of the arts in Queensland schools. Read more…

Go to resource: The Rise of the Developmental Music Curriculum – An Aesthetic Approach to Music Education in Queensland, by Judith Hewton, is published in the Queensland Researcher QJER Vol 5 No 1, 1989. Read more…

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. Read more…

Go to resource: The UK National Curriculum for Music (Stages 1 and 2) outlines the statutory program of study from 1999. Read more…

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.

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

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