MR510 The Arts in Early Childhood Education Assessment 3: Power Point and Personal Position Statement

MR510 2025 A3 BG Update

Assessment Three: PowerPoint and Personal position statement

This assessment has two sections:

Section One: PowerPoint

The purpose of the PowerPoint is to represent your recent personal art-making journey in a visual mode and it will contain original images of your art-making along with explanatory points about that personal process and journey. These original images could be photographs of your music or sound making, dancing, drama or original visual arts. Please limit the use of explanatory text about the process and journey of your art making within the PowerPoint slides to 30 words per slide. In-text references are required.(6 slides)

Section Two: Personal Position Statement On Arts Education

Articulate your personal position regarding the purpose of arts education for infants, toddlers and young children. Your beliefs and values about the learning and teaching of the arts (dance, drama, music-sound arts or visual arts), and how this may be revealed in practice, will be evident in this statement. Clear links between the beliefs and understandings of your position statement and the process of your art making journey in the PowerPoint are to be established. This will be an authentic, professional statement informed by relevant early childhood arts education literature from this course and additional research into scholarly literature pertaining to the arts discipline (dance, drama, music-sound arts or visual arts) that you focused on in your arts journey in this course.

Comprehension of the vision of Te Whāriki (MoE, 2017) will be evident in the statement. Add a combined reference list for both your Statement and PowerPoint here in Section Two.
Contributes to Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3

Section One: PowerPoint Presentation (6 Slides)

• Plan a title slide followed by four image slides which have brief captions. The content on the sixth slide is your choice.
• The PowerPoint presentation will contain four images in total (one from the prior assessment and three new images).
• Firstly, there will be one image (of your dance, drama, music-sound arts or visual arts) from assessment 2 to show the continuity from weeks 1-7 to weeks 8-12.
• If you have chosen drama, then a plot summary and a sketch of the theatre stage layout might be what you present.
• For dance, the slides would show choreography sketches or photos of dance postures.
• Building on and developing ideas from your assessment 2 means taking your original creative ideas a step further.
• Include a source of inspiration by locating a credible source of information such as an encyclopedia, a well-known establishment or a government website. For example, this could be Shakespeare for a playwright for drama, van Gogh for visual arts, or Mozart for music.

A well-known encyclopaedia is https://www.britannica.com.

An example of a government website is https://www.india.gov.in/topics/art-culture/music

Note: For an image previously submitted, you would write a caption underneath clarifying that this is the image from assessment 2 representing the earlier part of your personal 12-week journey.

The Powerpoint will showcase aspects of your 12-week arts journey.