CREATING A CROSS-ARTS CURRICULUM

As a pre-service teacher in my second year of a Master of Teaching degree, I have been on two placements under a primary school setting. Within those placements, I have had the priveledge of witnessing first hand the pressures and expectations placed on teachers to help guide students to achieving the learning outcomes and standards as outlined by AusVELS. 

 

As a result, a number of teachers struggle with allocating enough time towards all subjects. This has resulted in some subjects taking a 'back seat' and the more 'traditional' subjects such as mathematics, literacy, science and history taking precedance over any other subjects.

 

My arts philsophy takes a strong stance on the importance of art education as part of students' overall learning and that education needs to involve not ony teaching an array of subjects but teaching the interactions and connections between each subjects and the real world through an inter-disciplinary approach (Robson, 2013). 

 

The beauty with the Arts is it can be treated as specialty or interdisciplinary subjects; taught individually or taught alongside other subjects. The cross-arts curriculum has the exact same flexibility. These lesson plans have been organised so that you can choose to teach them in a set of units of inquiries or as a set of individual Arts subjects whilst still taking on board the interdisciplinary approach and focusing on cross-curriculum priorities.

 

As such, I have organised this website to allow for easy navigation whilst also outlining the connections and interconnections between each learning area.