Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide a range of developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences
- Identify and provide a wide range of music experiences for children that may be used to enhance children's development
- Identify and provide a wide range of movement experiences for children that may be used to enhance children's development
- Select and provide appropriate music and movement resources which are inclusive and encourage appreciation of diversity including cultural diversity
- Provide opportunities for children to practise developing skills
- Support facilitate and extend children's participation in music and movement
- Set up environment in a way that encourages children's participation in developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences
- Link music and movement activities and make them relevant to children's daily life in care
- Formulate strategies to encourage development of child's individual music and movement potential
- Encourage improvisation with instruments
- Design program to respond to children's interests that arise spontaneously as they participate in music and movement experiences
- Use strategies to model appropriate attitudes and interaction to encourage children's input and participation in music and movement experiences
- Plan and implement a range of developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences
- Use observations of individual children and groups of children to plan developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences for children
- Select and present a range of stimulating developmentally appropriate and inclusive music experiences for individual children and small groups of children
- Select and present a range of stimulating developmentally appropriate and inclusive movement experiences for individual children and small groups of children
- Use a range of methods to evaluate children's participation in and reactions to planned music and movement experiences
- Make ongoing modifications to stimulate interest and involvement in music and movement experiences, based on evaluation information