FET National Curriculum Statements

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FET National Curriculum Statements

• Dramatic Arts Beyond 2006
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DRAMATIC ARTS BEYOND 2006

• Dramatic Arts
• Replaces
• Speech and Drama
• Grade 10 in 2006
• Grade 11 in 2007
• Grade 12 in 2008

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Outcomes For The Session

• Teachers are familiar with
• the impact that the principles of the NCS will
  have on the
• teaching, learning and assessment of
  Dramatic Arts
• the design features of Dramatic Arts
• the alignment between GET and FET
• the key features of Dramatic Arts
• possible teaching and learning support material
  (software)
• learning needs for teachers in terms of new
  content/skills and ICT
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Key Principles And Values Underpinning The NCS

• Outcome 1
• Teachers are familiar with the impact that the
  principles of the NCS will have on the teaching,
  learning and assessment of the Dramatic Arts.
• Assessment standard
• Evidence
• List the principles underpinning the NCS
• In groups, share ideas on how, when and where to
  apply the listed principles in Dramatic
• Arts.

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KEY PRINCIPLES OF THE NCS

• Social transformation
• Outcomes-based education
• High knowledge and high skill
• Integration and applied competence
• Progression
• Articulation and portability
• Human rights, inclusivity, environmental and
  social justice
• Valuing indigenous knowledge systems
• Credibility, quality and efficiency

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• Outcome 2
• Teachers are familiar with the design features of
• Dramatic Arts.
• Assessment Standards
• Evidence
• Identify the design features of Dramatic Arts
• Share ideas on how (methodologies) the LO's and
  ASs are going to be addressed through
  teaching/learning and assessment strategies.
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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• CRITICAL OUTCOMES
• LEARNING FIELDS
• SUBJECT
• LEARNING OUTCOME
• ASSESSMENT STANDARDS

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• WHAT IS A CRITICAL OUTCOME?
• Key Outcomes inspired by the Constitution
• It includes key life skills for the learner

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• WHAT IS A LEARNING FIELD?
• A category that serves as a home for cognate
  subjects
• Facilitates the formulation of rules of
  combination
• Six Learning Fields linked to occupational
  categories
• Languages
• Arts and Culture
• Business, Commerce, Management and Service
  Studies
• Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology
• Human and Social Sciences and Languages
• Physical, Mathematical, Computer, Life
• and Agricultural Sciences

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS WHICH LEARNING FIELD?
MUSIC
VISUAL ARTS
DESIGN
ARTS AND CULTURE
DANCE STUDIES
DRAMATIC ARTS
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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• WHAT IS A SUBJECT? (Generic)
• A specific body of academic knowledge
• OBE knowledge integrates theory, skills and
  values

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• DRAMATIC ARTS WHAT IS A SUBJECT? (continued)
• Drama is a social art form.
• It integrates visual, aural, kinaesthetic and
  performance elements.
• The learner is challenged to communicate,
  explore, reflect on and enhance human experience.
  
• A range of performance modes are explored across
  a variety of media, within a diversity of
  cultural
• and social contexts.

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• WHAT IS A LEARNING OUTCOME?
• (Generic)
• A statement of an intended result of learning and
  teaching
• It describes knowledge, skills and values that
  learners should acquire

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• DRAMATIC ARTS LEARNING OUTCOMES
• LO 1 Apply Personal Resources
• LO 2 Create, Make and Present
• LO 3 Understand and Analyse
• LO 4 Reflect and Evaluate

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DESIGN FEATURES OF THE NCS

• WHAT ARE ASSESSMENT STANDARDS?
• Criteria that collectively provide evidence of
  what a learner should know and be able to
  demonstrate at a specific grade
• They embody the skills, knowledge and values
  required to achieve the Learning Outcomes
• They collectively show how conceptual
• progression occurs from grade to grade
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ALIGNMENT BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND DRAMATIC
ARTS

• Outcome 3
• Teachers are familiar with the alignment between
  GET
• learning areas and FET NCS subjects.
• Assessment Standard
• Evidence
• Identify the elements that will ensure an
  alignment between Arts and Culture (GET) and
  Dramatic Arts (FET).

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ALIGNMENT BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND DRAMATIC
ARTS
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ALIGNMENT BETWEEN ARTS AND CULTURE AND DRAMATIC
ARTS
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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS DEFINITION

• Drama is a social art form that integrates
  visual, aural, kinaesthetic and performance
  elements.
• The learner is challenged to communicate,
  explore, reflect on and enhance human experience,
  by using a range of performance modes that are
  explored across a variety of media, within a
  diversity of cultural and social contexts.

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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS PURPOSE

• Dramatic Arts develop and promote creativity as a
  rich, diverse and productive resource through
  communication, interaction and representation.
• Learning in Dramatic Arts involves using
  experience, reflection and analysis to gain
  skills, knowledge,values and insight.
• The approach is inclusive.

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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS SCOPE

• Cultural practices, processes and products
• Oral studies and oracy
• Text and context
• Performance styles, traditions and movements and
  the contributions of indigenous and international
  theatrical practitioners
• Dramatic practices, processes and products
• Dramatic media as an aspect of
• mass media

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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS SUGGESTED CONTENT
Grade 10

• Consult the Dramatic Arts NCS document and
  identify and report back on new skills and
  content per grade as suggested in each Learning
  Outcome and Assessment Standard.

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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS SUGGESTED
CONTENT Grade 11

• Consult the Dramatic Arts NCS document and
  identify and report back on new skills and
  content per grade as suggested in each Learning
  Outcome and Assessment Standard.

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KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS SUGGESTED
CONTENT Grade 12

• Consult the Dramatic Arts NCS document and
  identify and report back on new skills and
  content per Grade as suggested in each Learning
  Outcome and Assessment Standard.

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IDENTIFICATION OF LEARNING NEEDS

• New Skills
• Media Studies radio, film and television work
• Dance, mime and movement studies
• Technical skills lighting, sound and design
  techniques
• New Content
• Media Studies
• Arts administration, management and marketing
• ICT
• Methodologies
• OBE Methodologies and Inclusive Education
  Methodologies
• OBA Methodologies (constructing assessment
• instruments)
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UNDERSTANDING KEY FEATURES OF DRAMATIC ARTS
EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER LINKS

• Learners are equipped for entry into institutions
  of higher and additional learning in a variety of
  career fields
• All arts related fields e.g. galleries and
  museums, arts industries, community arts centres,
  cultural tourism, the media industry, events
  co-ordination, advertising, popular
  entertainment, private drama studios, television,
  film and theatre industry, as well as fields such
  as law, psychology, social services.
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NON- NEGOTIABLE NEEDS

• Specialist teacher
• Hall or double classroom (minimum)
• Prescribed Plays
• A dedicated CD player/ music system
• Timetabling to accommodate double periods or at
  least one hour long periods
• Security after school hours

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