University Folio 3B: Language and Literacy Learning Unit Plan

This assignment presents a detailed unit plan for teaching dance, drama, and media arts. The unit plan is structured into three sections, each dedicated to one art form, and includes lesson overviews, central questions, learning outcomes, and aims. The assignment also addresses pedagogical approaches, highlighting effective teaching methods for each art form, such as hands-on experience for dance, social activities for drama, and a combination of information and practical application for media arts. Furthermore, the assignment includes a diversity statement that emphasizes the importance of catering to different learning styles, such as auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning. The document also provides resources and strategies for engaging diverse learners within a classroom setting.

3B: Folio - Language
and literacy learning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Unit Plan for Dance, Drama and Media Arts..............................................................................1
Pedagogical Approaches Statement............................................................................................6
Catering for Diversity Statement................................................................................................6
Resources Statement...................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Teaching is the process with the help of which needs, experiences, feelings and
intervention of people's are attended in order to give them with new knowledge and learning
experiences (August and Shanahan, 2017). The following assignment will make its focus on the
development of units and lessons and the knowledge which will provide the students.
Additionally, the focus will be made on pedagogical approaches statement, diversity statement
and resources statement which are also important to decide in order to provide students with
effective learning and good knowledge that could help them in their future.
MAIN BODY
Unit Plan for Dance, Drama and Media Arts
DANCE DRAMA MEDIA ARTS
Unit 1: Dance and Types
Lesson 1: Introduction to
Dance
Lesson 2: Types of Dance
Lesson 3: Ways to Dance
Unit 1: Drama and
Importance
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Types of Drama
Lesson 3: Importance of
Drama
Unit 1: Media Arts Concept
and Types
Lesson 1: Introduction to
Media Arts
Lesson 2: Types of Media Arts
Lesson 3: Social Media as
Media Art
A) Central Question:
What is Dance?
A) Central Question:
Defining concept of Drama.
A) Central Question:
What is Media Arts and its
Varieties?
B) Year Level
By the end of the year, the
students will be able to learn
and gain knowledge about
dance, types and the different
ways with the help of which
dancing could be learned.
B) Year Level
By the end of the year,
students will be able to learn
about the concept of drama,
their types and the importance
of dramas whether they do
provide some knowledge or
not to the students.
B) Year Level
Till the end of the year, the
students will be able to learn
about the concept of media
arts, types of media arts and
social media as media art. It
will focus on providing
knowledge to students about
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the use of social media as
media art tool in order to
enhance the knowledge of
students and enhancing their
learning abilities and
knowledge.
C) Learning Outcomes
LO: Reviewing Dance, Types
and Ways of Dance: After
completing this module, the
students will be able to have
proper knowledge about
different ways of dancing, with
the help of theoretical as well
as practical knowledge.
C) Learning Outcomes
LO: Acknowledging about
Drama, Importance and its
Types: By the end of this
module, it will be possible for
students to learn about what is
drama all about and what
learning it could be provide
and how it is helpful for
students in enhancing their
learning skills as well as
abilities (Chun, Kern and
Smith, 2016).
C) Learning Outcomes
LO: Knowing About the
Concept of Media Arts and
its Varieties Including Social
Media: By completing this
unit, it will be possible for the
students to gain knowledge
about what is media arts, how
it works, what are their types,
what is social media and how
it is linked to media arts and
many answers to many other
questions.
D) Aim of Unit
The aim of this unit to make
the students aware about the
different types of dance such
as classical, hip hop,
contemporary, belly dance,
jazz and ballet to the students.
It will also provide the
students about how to perform
these dance forms.
Additionally, it will also make
D) Aim of Unit
The aim of this unit is to
explore and enlighten the
students with the concept of
drama as such as what is
drama, how it is played, what
is its benefit and many more
concepts. In addition to this, it
will also make its focus on the
various types of drama which
are played and the differences
D) Aim of Unit
The following aim will
provide the students with the
importance of media arts such
as its definition, information
about its concept, i.e., what is
it all about and what things are
covered under it (Barton,
2017). The unit will also
explore about the different
varieties of media arts and and
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the students aware about the
use of needed informations
and differences in between the
different types of dance forms
which are covered in the
module.
among them so that students
could be made clear with
differences in between
different types of dramas. The
information will also be
covered about the importance
of drama in influencing the
nature and behaviour of other
people (Derewianka and Jones,
2016). As some dramas are
created for creating humour
and some gives some morals at
their end and some gives
evidences of some past
incidents and stories related to
some good or bad activities.
also will also provide
description about them so that
the students could have a little
bit knowledge about their
concepts and what they
actually relates to.
E) Lesson Overview
 Lesson 1: The
following chapter will
make the learners
aware about the
concept of dance such
as the characteristics of
dance, benefits of
dance, facts and many
more things which
helps in attracting large
number of spectators at
a single period of time.
Further, the learners
will also be made
E) Lesson Overview
 Lesson 1: In this
chapter, the discussion
will be related to
drama. The students
will be made aware
about the concept of
drama, the key roles,
which may be
conflicting nature in
front of others, the
nature of drama
whether it is linked to
some real life event or
is fictitious. There is a
E) Lesson Overview
 Lesson 1: The
following chapter will
assist the students with
the concept of media
arts, what is relates to
and about its
characteristics.
 Lesson 2: The
discussion in the
second chapter of this
unit will be related to
types of media arts
such as social media,
mass communication,
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aware about the history
of dance so that they
could be know about
some interesting facts
and knowledge about
dance so their interest
could be maintained in
the following topic.
 Lesson 2: This lesson
will make the students
aware about the
different types of dance
and how different
dancing styles are
practised and could be
learnt. The students
will be made aware
about these dancing
styles with the help of
difference videos and
theoretical knowledge
so that it could become
possible for them to
increase their
knowledge about
different concepts and
make their choices
about which dance
form they would like to
explore more because
the interest of
difference of language
as well in the dramas
which will also be
explained later in the
chapter and the reasons
to this differentiation
will also be explained
so that students may
have a clear
understanding about
the topic as well
(Hyland and Hyland,
2019).
 Lesson 2: In this
lesson, the students
will learn about the
importance of drama
whether they provide
some knowledge to the
spectators or not. This
will be made possible
with the help of
different types of
drama made such as
humorous, some
related to real events,
some presents moral
stories and many more
types in order to
entertain people or
acknowledging people
recording, graphics,
presentations and many
more.
 Lesson 3: This lesson
will acknowledge the
students with the social
media as a tool of
media art as how it is
used and why it is
important from that of
other tools and some
other related concepts
increasing the
knowledge of students
about social media and
its relation with media
arts.
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difference students will
differ from one
another?
 Lesson 3: After getting
known with the
theoretical aspects of
dancing, now it is the
turn to make changes
in their learning from
the theoretical to
practical knowledge
(Leki, 2017). The
following lesson will
include less theoretical
learning, instead the
main focus of this
lesson will be on the
development of skills,
abilities and interests in
students to learn dance
by making them
practical with what
they are taught as mere
theoretical knowledge
is not enough in order
to become a good
dancer (Paris and Alim,
2017). Their
performance will be
checked, evaluated and
then also will be
with some other facts
of past as well.
 Lesson 3: The
following lesson will
make the students
aware about the
importance of dramas
such as the dramas
related to historical or
past events makes
enhances the
knowledge of viewers
and makes changes in
their thoughts and
perceptions.
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rectified so that in
future these mistakes
should not be repeated
and efficiency could be
achieved that could
help in development of
students' career in this
field as well.
Pedagogical Approaches Statement
Pedagogical Approaches: Every teacher uses personal techniques of teaching different
subjects and such methods are called pedagogy. These approaches are used to make their
teaching style effective and efficient to help students in learning their lessons. There are different
ways by which these approaches can be taught to students, some of them are:
Dance: This unit can be teach by doing hands-on experience which means they will
practice their skills and abilities in practical way. The students can imitate the postures and
moves of teacher and get feedback to avoid mistakes. This can also be done by giving online
lessons to reach large number of students. It is most effective as pupil will learn in natural and in
presence of tutor to enhance their skills (Schachter and et. al., 2016).
Drama: It needs lots of social activity like face expressions, greetings and body language,
this enables supports of technology with traditional method. Student participation is most
important to carry out this approach effectively. It allow teacher to combines distinguish teaching
style and provide flexibility to adopt in various scenario.
Media Arts: This requires informations, literature search and doing practical to apply that
knowledge. The tutor provides coaching and solutions to help students to improve self-study and
practical combination of teaching style. Assessment will be done by online test and practical
structures.
Catering for Diversity Statement
Catering for diversity statement: Every student is different in way of learning and
expressing views in nature. It is important to engage each student to be effective in teaching and
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helping them to become good learning by various ways. Some of the teaching style in classroom
for diverse students are:
Auditory: In this style learners learn through listening audio or by conversation like
debate to make them remember. This is important to briefly explain and include every aspects to
learn lessons which provides easy arrangements of equipment. This style is applicable in easy
and simple lessons like story, poems, speech, etc. so that student can memorise chapters and tell
it to other students as well (Stone and et. al., 2016).
Visual: Representing lessons in visual content so that students can remember each and
every details related to it. This creates powerful impact on mind in remembering and learning
lessons of complex nature. Graphics, pictures and sounds are used in this teaching style to put
impact.
Kinesthetic: This style are useful for early age group learners, in this along with audio
shapes or objects are also present in classroom to make students remember. This includes those
shapes and figures that are related to current lesson to create a image in pupil mind. Shapes of
fruits, colour boxes, shapes, objects, sticks are normally used so that student mind made image of
these things whenever they listen respective names.
Resources Statement
Resource Statement: Every teaching style requires certain equipments and resources to
make it effective and create an impact in students minds. These helps teaching style to be easy
and time efficient, some of them are as follows:
Dance: Enough floor space for practical lessons and internet connectivity with project
and screen to teach students with live lessons. This will require CDs or DVDs of different forms
of dance to monitor interest of students to specific culture.
Drama: Costumes to add creativity in lessons, stage for practical knowledge, books to
read out dialogues, etc. this requires expertise of drama to correct minor mistakes in order to be
effective in teaching. Different books related to various aspects of drama for better learning and
lessons from cultures and communities.
Media Arts: This requires access to library for books to take knowledge. Internet
connectivity, computer and equipments for experimenting. Online test and assessment purchase
to analyse performance of students (Roskos, 2017).
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CONCLUSION
From the above assignment, it has been concluded that teaching and learning are very
important skills for both the students and teachers as well. Additionally, the conclusion has been
drawn about the preparation of unit plan which makes aware about the teacher with different
aspects of teaching such as materials to be used, concepts to be covered and many more making
it easier for students to understand what the teacher wants to deliver to them.
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REFERENCES
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