MUSC12417 - Studio Teaching Methods 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

You will continue your development of the theoretical and practical application of effective studio teaching skills by investigating the methods and materials required to teach an instrument or voice in a private music studio with students at intermediate and advanced levels. You will concentrate on identifying the essential performing and educational elements of significant repertoire while learning how to assist students to harness these elements to support good performance practice at intermediate and advanced levels.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

For entry into this unit, you must have completed 36 credit points in this course.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Practical and Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 0.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 0% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Staff reflection
Feedback
Continue to develop engaging weekly tasks that encourage students to develop their music teaching skills
Recommendation
Staff will continue to develop engaging exercises for students to participate in class. This will assist in developing teaching skills and competence with teaching methodologies.
Action Taken
Staff developed engaging exercises for students to participate in class. These exercises aimed to improve the teaching skills and competence with teaching methodologies.
Source: Staff reflection
Feedback
Update unit materials relating the advance studio teaching
Recommendation
Staff will update the learning materials relating to advanced studio teaching.
Action Taken
Staff updated the learning materials relating to advanced studio teaching. This included adding additional readings, exercises and links to relevant online pedagogical learning sites specific to instruments.
Source: Staff reflection
Feedback
Update in-class exercises for practical demonstration of teaching skills
Recommendation
Staff will update the current class activities to ensure students have adequate opportunity to develop their communication skills in teaching repertoire to beginner and intermediate students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify essential performing and educational elements of significant repertoire for your chosen instrument or voice at intermediate and advancing levels
  2. Articulate the various pedagogies used in studio music teaching for intermediate and advancing levels for your chosen instrument or voice
  3. Explain and demonstrate the methods for assisting intermediate and advancing students to harness these elements to support good performance practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Written Assessment • •
2 - Written Assessment • •
3 - Practical and Written Assessment •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • •
3 - Practical and Written Assessment • • • • •