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Assessment in MYP Visual Arts for new teachers
Virtual Think-In, 6 November 2024
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ATL Skills & the MYP Visual Arts Process Journal
Virtual Think-In, 21 November 2024
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The DP Visual Arts Exhibition
Virtual Think-In, 6 December 2024
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Art Thinking
Principles of Design Free
There is no definitive list or systematic description of the principles of design; there are so many variations and different terminologies that it can be hard to know what to refer to. Here, I have referenced...
Artists and Curating
Critique Guidelines Free
It's a good time of year for an IB Art class critique. Schedule a day and ask students select a few pieces of resolved or almost resolved work each to discuss with the rest of the class. I recommend creating...
Artists and Curating
Critiques
Think of the critique as a collaborative experience. It is a group search for visual solutions, for meaning and purpose and new ideas. The critique is also a way of helping students learn to be helpful...
Artists and Curating
Question Stems
Asking questions is one of the highest-order thinking skills, demonstrating one's ability to synthesize different concepts. This skill can support the development of critical thinking across all three...
Start Here Students
Question Stems for Students
Asking questions is one of the highest-order thinking skills, demonstrating one's ability to synthesize different concepts. This skill can support the development of critical thinking across all three...
Art Thinking
Sound in Contemporary Art
Sound is materially invisible but very visceral and emotive. It can define a space at the same time as it triggers a memory -Susan Philipsz Sound Art is Art which uses sound both as its medium (what it...
Assessment
Rubrics Landing Page Free
On this page you will find rubrics for each component as well as a variety of other assessment tools and discussion of rubrics- all in one place for easy access. Rodolfo Morales (Mexican, 1925–2001)...
Course Components
Critical Investigation (B) Free
Process Portfolio Criterion B Critical investigation "To what extent does the portfolio demonstrate the students critical investigation of artist, artworks and artistic genres, communicating a growing...
Student Gallery
Zere, CS HL Free
This example of an organized and articulate Comparative Study earned Zere a 7. She was motivated by her interest in photography and by her own cultural experiences as a female in the middle east, to...
Student Gallery
Zere, Exhibition HL Free
Zere created her exhibition with a very specific and intentional group of lens based photographs of young arab males posing in specific locations. This collection of photos entitled “He Who Tells a Story”...