NOTIONAL OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK

UNIT SUBMISSION FORM

1 / Unit Title / Piano Playing
2 / Level of Unit / Level 1
3. / Number of notional hours of learning time required to meet the learning outcomes / 30 hours
4. / Details of any prerequisites for the unit / Basic sense of humour
5. / Learning outcomes required for successful completion of unit / The learner should be able to:
Exhilarate in a variety of group piano play situations
Exhume and exude commensurate confidence and self esteem
Masticate a range of learning styles
Explicate a magnitude of pianos, notes and piano stools
Manage (and beat) time effectively
Generate appropriate study skills
Accumulate relevant abilities, qualities, potential
Accelerate job search skills
Incorporate opportunities in training, education, voluntary and paid employment, as progression routes.
6. / The assessment criteria against which successful completion will be judged / The student will, with a high degree of tutor support:
1a Integrate group play situations
b Replicate benefits of group playing
2a Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative (notes)
b Locate increased confidence and self esteem
3a Create group activity exploring and describing previous learning experience
b Elaborate on favourite tunes
4.  Alleviate and beat time in group discussion
5  a Desecrate use of a piano for play and employment purposes
b Demonstrate when and why it is important to use the notes
c Illustrate and illuminate notes
6  a Incorporate, desiccate and defecate piano playing procedures
b Conjugate transferable skills
c Associate own personal qualities
d Enumerate one's own piano fortes that would be helpful in voluntary work and paid employment
7a Annihilate ignorance of the appearance of different pianos
b Expropriate available skills in opening lids and using chairs (with/without cushion)
c Desegregate black and white notes without discrimination; giving all notes equal opportunities for development of their potential
d. Appropriate the use of (some) fingers in order to play the notes
e Demarcate high notes from low notes
f Participate as an observer, player and cat/dog in a piano playing role play
8 Lubricate personal opportunities in training, education, voluntary work or paid employment as progression routes
7 / Signature of Chair of internal quality assurance panel and date