EDUC 336 - Methods for Teaching Arts

5 Credits

This course, Methods for Teaching Arts (dance, music, theater, and visual arts), examines the philosophies, methodologies, and instructional techniques necessary for selecting, implementing, and evaluating appropriate educational activities to support the physical, musical, and artistic development of elementary-aged students. Candidates will explore how learning in and through the arts supports academic and social/emotional learning for all students by providing multiple pathways to learning concepts, demonstrating understanding across all subject areas, and helping students to make deeper and more meaningful connections to learning. Candidates will apply learning by developing lesson plans and curriculum units that align instruction and assessment with learning goals, identifying a range of developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate instructional strategies, and incorporating methods that elicit student voice (e.g., including reflection related to learning targets, metacognitive strategies, and effective use of resources).

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Evening, Online, Weekend

Designed to Serve BAS Teaching students
Active Date 20200330T21:14:54

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
BAS

Humanities

Course Outline
Candidates will explore how learning in and through the Arts supports:

academic and social/emotional learning for all students by providing multiple pathways to learning concepts
demonstrating understanding across all subject areas
and helping students to make deeper and more meaningful connections to learning.
developing lesson plans and curriculum units that align instruction and assessment with learning goals
identifying a range of developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate instructional strategies
incorporating methods that elicit student voice (e.g., including reflection related to learning targets, metacognitive strategies, and effective use of resources).
This course will include opportunities to reflect on student teaching experiences.

Student Learning Outcomes
Develop strategies to integrate students with special needs into art, music, and movement activities

Demonstrate an understanding of developmental stages and the acquisition of physical , musical, and artistic skills and concepts

Demonstrate an understanding of how to integrate art, music, and movement across the curriculum

Demonstrate understanding of the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) and create learning experiences that make the discipline accessible and meaningful for learners to assure mastery of the content.

Use understanding of how learners grow and develop (in cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas) to design and implement developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences that use a variety of instructional strategies aimed at making learning in mathematics accessible to all learners.

Select, create, and sequence learning experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals based on content standards and cross-disciplinary skills, and engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication to address authentic local and global issues.

Use, design or adapt multiple methods of assessment to document, monitor, and support learner progress appropriate for learning goals and objectives.

Plan instruction based on information from formative and summative assessments as well as other sources, and systematically adjust plans to meet each student’s learning needs.

Demonstrate ability to construct and facilitate learning experiences that simultaneously develop English language proficiencies and discipline-specific knowledge by incorporating tools of language development into planning and instruction, including strategies for making content accessible to English language learners, and for evaluating and supporting their development of English proficiency.

Consistently engage in culturally responsive practices that empower students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes.