ABC Education & Teaching Creative Arts Role in Primary Education Essay

You are to write an essay that consists of two parts:

Part A: You are to write an essay in response to the following question: What is the value of creative arts in primary education?

In Part A, you must:

explain how the Arts provide a different way of experiencing and understanding the world that is unique from other learning areas

describe the benefits of creative learning experiences and how the knowledge and understandings learned in these experiences are important transferable skills.

Part B: You are to write an essay that addresses the following prompt: Investigate the teaching and learning of one of the Arts learning areas/subjects—either Visual Arts, Music or Drama.

In Part B, you must:

describe a specific pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of one specific Arts learning area/subject (Visual Arts, Music or Drama) that you have chosen

explain how elements of ICT, using the Digital Technologies content descriptions or ICT General Capabilities, can be incorporated into the Arts learning area/subject you have chosen.

explain where this one specific Arts learning area/subject is situated and structured in the curriculum for primary education, and explain how it could be integrated across the curriculum

explain the elements of the one specific Arts learning area/subject that are required to be understood in order to effectively teach it in primary education.