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The importance and challenges for Arts, Health & Physical education,…
The importance and challenges for Arts, Health & Physical education, and Design &
Technology
Arts
Importance of the Arts
Helping students develop soft skills needed for future jobs
socio-emotional development
Self-awareness, creativity, wellbeing and self-esteem
cognitive skills
problem-solving, critical and creative thinking
social skills
Able to work alongside others, respect for other cultures
Enhancing learning across the curriculum
Opportunities for the students to explore, respond to, and analyse elements of arts and recreate it in different learning areas.
Students are given creative freedom to approach their own learning
Challenges of teaching Arts
Limited time and resources allocated for Art
Schools pour more attention into literacy and numeracy because the are pressured to perform well in the nationwide NAPLAN assessments
Insufficient research and resources dedicated to integrate Art into different learning areas
Creative Ecology conceptual framework, whole-school creative audit approach, and arts immersion strategy
Design & Technology
Importance of Design & Technology
Equipping students with skills needed for future jobs
Requires students to use their analytical skills and synthesising techniques
Continuous improvement
Develops student's creativity which maximises their employment prospects
Developing student's problem-solving skills
Enables teachers to introduce real-world problems into the classroom for the students to work on.
Builds foundation skills needed for careers which create technological innovations to tackle current challenges facing the global community.
Challenges of Design & Technology
Providing a student-centric learning which the students are given the freedom to direct their learning and take risks.
Health & Physical Education
Challenges of teaching HPE
The relevance of health issues to the students
Affects the engagement level of the students with the content
Health issues that are not relevant to the students' lives may cause segmented learning: Students understand how the knowledge applies in specific contexts but is unable to generalised the content to other contexts.
The pedagogy adopted by the HPE teacher
Personal responsibility
Environmental crisis
Healthism
Embodied experiences
Students build their own understanding of how the environment relates with health by creating learning opportunities for the students to be immersed in nature.
Importance of HPE
Strength-based approach
Students learn how social and cultural environment influences their behaviour and actions
Students are directly involved in the learning experience
Developing students' critical thinking and inquiry skills
Building the student's health literacy
Encouraging students to take action to promote healthy living for themselves and others around them.