JCE Creative Arts case studies

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The JCE Creative Arts examination is a multiple-choice credential assessment for candidates who teach or intend to teach creative arts at the junior secondary level. It suits pre-service teachers completing creative arts methodology coursework, practising teachers seeking to formalise or strengthen their subject specialism, and educators moving into arts instruction from generalist roles. The JCE Creative Arts case studies are 5 cases and about 5,161 words.

Solvent fumes, 44 learners and one louvre window

At a junior secondary school in a dry region of Botswana, a JCE Creative Arts teacher has 44 learners in one class that meets for an 80-minute double period each week. The room is a general classroom: one louvre window, one door, no sink, no extraction fan, and outside temperatures above 32 °C.

1,073 words, about 5 min 2

Group drama marks and an appeal to the principal

A JCE Drama class of 36 has just finished a devised practical: six groups of six, each performing an eight-minute piece on water scarcity using one prescribed dramatic technique. The teacher assessed only the final performance and awarded every member of each group the same mark; Group 3 all received 18/25.

935 words, about 5 min 3

Ten weeks, 48 learners, no art room

At a school with 48 learners in one JCE Creative Arts class, the timetable gives two 40-minute periods a week in a normal classroom with desks bolted in rows. There is no art room, no sink, and storage is one metal cupboard.

1,042 words, about 5 min 4

Arranging for an ensemble that is missing strings and a note

A JCE music practical is four weeks away. The school ensemble has 22 learners: six descant recorders, three guitars (two with missing strings), one keyboard with a dead F-sharp key, a djembe and assorted hand percussion.

1,033 words, about 5 min 5

No kiln, no clay delivery, five weeks left

A Grade 9 craft unit requires learners to hand-build a clay vessel using pinch, coil and slab techniques and to understand the stages of clay from greenware to glaze. The school has no kiln and no supplier will deliver clay because of transport costs; the nearest pottery is 90 km away.

1,078 words, about 5 min