Toolkit / Resources

Sarah•Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Resources collected by Sarah (based in VIC) and Rich (based in TAS). Drama Warm-up games useful for beginning activities: https://www.theatrefolk.com/spotlights/ensemble-activities-and-exercises Improv games: http://improvencyclopedia.org/games/ Improv games: http://plays.about.com/od/improvgames/a/storyimprov.htm Warm up games: https://dramateachersnetwork.wordpress.com/warm-up-games/ Warm up games: https://www.dramanotebook.com/drama-games/ Integrating drama into regular classes: http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/video/525

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Media Arts - Rich

Rich•Monday, August 31, 2015

Camera movement & Camera Angle What camera angles have you been able to identify [in the film Short Stuff]? Describe them and their context. Angle type Long shot (establishing shot) Action Close-up / Point-of-view Context Allows viewer to take in

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Media Arts - Sarah

Sarah•Saturday, August 29, 2015

Media Arts During professional experience placements (PE), I have seen technology being used.  On PE3, with grade 2’s, I used an iPad to video the children teaching each other how to complete certain mathematical processes.  This was the first time

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Music - Rich

Rich•Thursday, August 13, 2015

Soundscape Our soundscape (with help of a 4-year old) Perhaps the machine making the noise? (with help of a 4-year old) What can we hear? Rhythm - our soundscape has a repetitive rhythm in that the different sounds are made

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Music - Sarah

Sarah•Wednesday, August 12, 2015

How to apply music into my generalist classroom I really liked the way Bill linked making music with everyday items (linked to Australian curriculum: Sustainability under the Cross Curriculum Priorities). I have added an audio of my music composition. Sarah's Music Composition

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Dance - Sarah

Sarah•Friday, August 07, 2015

What unique contribution does dance make to a child’s development? Dance is a great medium to teach with as children do not have the reticence that teenagers and adults have about their perceived public image.  Movement is crucial for healthy

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Dance - Rich

Rich•Thursday, August 06, 2015

Dance Through reflecting on the readings and the videos, what unique contributions does dance make to a child’s development? I can see a strong link to HPE in terms of body movement, balance and well being, but of course dance

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Visual Art - Rich

Rich•Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Familiarisation How might your own experiences, perceptions and feelings towards visual art impact upon your willingness and preparedness to provide visual arts learning experiences to your students? My feelings towards art could very much impact upon the learning experiences I

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Thoughts from: Boone (2008)

Sarah•Monday, August 03, 2015

Children produce large quantities of art when they are young – particularly between the ages of four and six. (Boone, 2008, p. 30) I can relate to this from the perspective of both of my children.  My daughter was a

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Cafeteria approach to art in Primary Schools

Rich•Friday, July 31, 2015

I'm sure a lot of schools have a 'cafeteria' approach to art, but that's not been my experience in my Professional Experience placements, or when I attended Primary school myself. Many of you would be familiar with rotations: when you

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Drama - Sarah

Sarah•Tuesday, July 28, 2015

What strategies would you use in teaching a drama workshop like Fox to primary children? By not pre-reading the whole book to the class, Kate ensured that they did not have their Making, Presenting and Responding influenced by the final

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Drama - Rich

Rich•Monday, July 27, 2015

Source  Fox "What strategies would you use in teaching a drama workshop like 'Fox' to primary children?" It seems that warm-ups are essential to creating a safe, non-judgemental environment for drama-based lessons (Sinclair, 2012, p. 46). I hadn't thought about

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School portrait - Rich

Rich•Sunday, July 26, 2015

"Create a 250-word pen portrait that reflects a dominant philosophy from your own schooling. Reflect on the place of the arts and creativity in your portrait." I remember participating in many forms of art in both Primary school and High

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Pen portrait - Sarah

Sarah•Friday, July 24, 2015

Create a 250 word pen portrait that reflects a dominant philosophy from your own schooling.  Reflect on the place of the arts and creativity in your portrait. Being educated in the 80’s, creativity was not encouraged as teachers wanted students

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Sir Ken Robinson - Sarah

Sarah•Friday, July 17, 2015

Having watched Sir Ken Robinson's talk I was inspired by his quote: Creativity is as important as literacy. This applies to all of the Australian Curriculum, where we, as teachers, should be striving to encourage the children to be creative

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Most formative early arts experiences - Rich

Rich•Thursday, July 16, 2015

"Share your most formative early arts experiences (be they school-based or not, positive or not)" Visual Arts In terms of actual memories, I can remember leaf rubbings at Hollybank, creating bubble pictures, vegetable stamps, decorating real eggs as Easter etc.

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A shared blog...

Sarah•Thursday, July 16, 2015

We state that this blog is 50% the work of Sarah Gale and 50% the work of Rich Talbot. We accept that the grades awarded will be the same for both of us. Enjoy our blog!  :)       (:

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