ECE2018 Early Childhood Music and Drama Education (FOEDU)

Semester 1 (ONC)Toowoomba (ONC)Fraser Cst (EXT)Toowoomba

Units 1.0 (Teacher Education: Early Child) Band 5

State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland are required to possess a current suitability card (Blue Card). (See "Other Requirements" for further information.) Also see: http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/employment/bluecard/informationSheets.html.

Synopsis

This course focuses on music and drama in early childhood. It provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to guide children's creative development in the early years. It will examine how music and drama can be integrated into the early childhood classroom environment to foster the development of an understanding of the elements of music and drama, and an ability to apply this understanding to singing, playing of melodic and percussive instruments, improvisation and moving.