Improving Professional Practice

Policies / Guidelines

Arts (general)

• The Arts (VELS)
• The Arts Support
• The Arts Standards and Progression Points
• Whole school – Introduction to the domains: The Arts
• The Arts Domain

Visual Art / Art&Design

• The Arts (Art) Standards and Progression Points

Dance

• The Arts (Dance) Standards and Progression Points

Music

• The Arts (Music) Standards and Progression Points

Drama

• The Arts (Drama) Standards and Progression Points

Websites

Arts (inclusive)

• The Arts (edna)
• ArtsEdge

Visual Art / Art&Design

• (The) Admiral Cowdisley Education Group: The Magic of Painting
• (The) Archibald Prize - Australia's Premier Portraiture Award
• Australian Indigenous art (Portal from the Australian Government)
• Australian Painters - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation
• Australian Sculpture
• Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 (online access to the Library of Congress' collection of more than 2,700 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collections (online access to works of art from around the world)
• VADS: The online resource for visual arts (Visual Arts Data Service / University for the Creative Arts, UK)

Dance

• Dance Education Sites (ArtsWork)

Music

• Music Group performance (VCAA)
• Music Viva
• Canorus

Drama

• Drama Victoria
• NSW Department of Education and Training/Creative Arts

Publications

Visual Art / Art&Design

• Addison, Nicholas&Burgess, Lesley (2007). Learning to teach art and design in the secondary school: A companion to school experience (2nd ed.) London; New York: Routledge.

Dance

• Kassing, Gayle&Jay, Danielle M. (2003). Dance teaching methods and curriculum design. Champaign, IL; Leeds: Human Kinetics.
  McGreevy-Nichols, Susan (2005). Building dances: A guide to putting movements together (2nd ed.) Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Music

• Finney, John & Burnard, Pamela (2007). Music education with digital technology. London; New York: Continuum.

Drama

• Lewis, Martin & Rainer, John (2005). Teaching classroom drama and theatre: Practical projects for secondary schools. London: New York, NY: RoutledgeFalmer