CONT599: Honour Specialist Visual Arts
This course applies innovative 21st-century tools to best support and prepare visual arts educators for leadership roles and their learners for real-world applications. Best practices in instructional design to enhance learner engagement will be examined and practiced. Equity, anti-racism practices, culturally responsive teaching, and Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives enrich curriculum content, instructional strategies, and community building. The creative process, global connections, and the diversification of classroom resources are explored. Engaging and empowering assessment strategies are explored to address the challenge of evaluating creativity. Course assignments are designed to be directly applicable to your own professional practice and arts leadership potential.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course, you will have the opportunity to
- apply 21st-century approaches to arts education
- examine the creative process, new technologies, and artistic development to enhance learner engagement, learner voice, and choice
- expand professional connections and professional development opportunities
- explore culturally responsive teaching and First Nations perspectives to enrich curriculum content, instruction, and relationships
- apply assessment and evaluation strategies to engage and empower learners
- reflect on your own creative practice in an inclusive space
Assessments
Module 1
Role and Responsibility
Module 2
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Progress Update 1
Module 3
Indigenization and Decolonization
Module 4
21st C Learning
Progress Update 2
Module 5
Inclusive Instructional Strategies
Module 6
Assessment and Design
Progress Update 3
Module 7
Consolidation
Final Progress Report