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Unit ECA731 
 Teaching Arts Education: Middle Years
This unit asked me to move from curriculum to classroom, and from theory to practice. The result is Make your Mark, a four-lesson unit for Year 8 Visual Arts exploring when resistance becomes agency.
The lesson sequence, resources and rationale are documented below.
Components Task 1
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Task 1 
Lesson Sequence

 Make Your Mark is a four-lesson unit exploring resistance, agency and mark-making. Year 8 Visual Arts. Victorian Curriculum 2.0.

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Task 2
Teaching Resource

Kaylene Whiskey Artist Research Card. Designed to scaffold student engagement with a living Anangu artist whose work asks students to claim their own mark through self-acceptance and joy.

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Task 3 
Rationale

The thinking behind the unit. Through resistance art I landed on agency with the help of street art Kaylene Whiskey and Sisyphus. Theory, inspiration, curriculum and practice connected.

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Appendices

Vocabulary glossary, prior knowledge notes and extension tasks for all four lessons. Supporting resources for teacher use.
Task 2 extends this practice into advocacy, assessment and professional reflection. The VCD advocacy poster YOU ARE BEING DESIGNED. DESIGN BACK. was designed for a Year 9/10 electives audience, alongside a formative assessment task for Visual Arts Year 9/10 and a presentation on the Kaylene Whiskey Artist Research Card from Assessment Task 1. The components are documented below.
Components Task 2
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Task 1A VCD Advocacy Poster

YOU ARE BEING DESIGNED. DESIGN BACK. An an advocacy poster for Year 9/10 Visual Communication Design. Designed for an electives night audience:  students, parents and school leaders. Concept, visual language and curriculum alignment working as one.

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Task 1B
Rationale

The thinking behind the poster. Why this concept, why these visual choices, and how the design speaks to three audiences simultaneously. Informed by Kress and van Leeuwen, Steiner and the Victorian Curriculum 2.0.

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Task 2 Exit Ticket

A Studio Reflection Exit Ticket for Year 9/10 Visual Arts. Three prompts that reveal where each student sits between making and meaning. Aligned to Victorian Curriculum 2.0.

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 Task 3B
Task 3A presentation video available via the button below.

Critical Reflection on the week 11 peer presentation of the Kaylene Whiskey Artist Research Card. Responds to feedback  concrete next steps. 

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