Download Ethiopian new Curriculum grade 5 performing and visual art pva Teacher's Guide PDF

The Grade 5 Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) Teacher's Guide in the Ethiopian New Curriculum is designed to help Teachers implement the curriculum effectively. It provides structured lesson guidance, practical teaching strategies, and assessment suggestions. The guide emphasizes developing students’ skills in music, dance, theatre, and visual arts while connecting artistic learning to real-life and cultural contexts.

Writers / Editors

The Teacher's guide is written by Gesese Woldekahne, Deresse Kiyamitew, and Keleb Tabbeb.

Teacher's Guide Summery

• Country: Ethiopia
• Publisher: Addis Ababa City Administration Education Bureau
• Subject: performing and visual art PVA
• Grade: 5
• Curriculum: New
• Type: Teacher's Guide
• Total Units: 5 units
• Total Pages: 104
• File Size: 13 MB
• File Format: PDF

Chapters

Ethiopian New Curriculum Grade 5 performing and visual art PVA has 5 chapters, they are:-

1. Artistic Understanding / ጥበባዊ ግንዛቤ
2. Revealing Creativity / ፈጠራን መግለፅ
3. Historical and Cultural Contexts / ታሪካዊና ባህላዊ አውዶች
4. Aesthetic Value / ሥነውበታዊ ዕሴት
5. Relationships and Application / ጥምርታ፣ ዝምድናና ትግበራ

Chapters overview

• Chapter 1: Artistic Understanding / ጥበባዊ ግንዛቤ: Guides Teachers in introducing students to the fundamentals of performing and visual arts. Includes lesson strategies for teaching musical elements (rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, duration), dance (body movement, space, coordination), theatre (actors, audience, stage setup, props, scripts), and visual arts (lines, 2D/3D shapes, color, environment). Provides Teachers with methods to help students identify and understand these core concepts.
• Chapter 2: Revealing Creativity / ፈጠራን መግለፅ: Equips Teachers to foster students’ creative expression in music, dance, theatre, and visual arts. Contains guidance on teaching musical notation and performance, choreographing dance to express music, acting with costumes and makeup, and creating visual artworks such as paper mosaics. Emphasizes practical, hands-on learning strategies for Teachers.
• Chapter 3: Historical and Cultural Contexts / ታሪካዊና ባህላዊ አውዶች: Supports Teachers in helping students explore the cultural and historical significance of Ethiopian arts. Includes lesson plans on folk dances, folk tales, national music, and the development of visual arts (cave art, traditional painting), guiding Teachers to connect lessons to Ethiopian heritage.
• Chapter 4: Aesthetic Value / ሥነውበታዊ ዕሴት: Provides Teachers with tools to explain the societal value of arts. Offers strategies to teach similarities and differences between music, dance, and theatre, the benefits of visual arts, and how arts support cultural identity, memory, and physical and cognitive development.
• Chapter 5: Relationships and Application / ጥምርታ፣ ዝምድናና ትግበራ: Helps Teachers connect art instruction to real-life and community issues. Includes guidance on teaching songs and plays addressing social challenges (trafficking, HIV, drugs), interpreting signs, logos, and posters, and facilitating student engagement in practical, community-oriented artistic activities.