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Virtual Think-Ins
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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Principles of Design
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...

31 October 2024
Critique Guidelines
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...

26 October 2024
Critiques
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...

26 October 2024
Question Stems
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...

22 October 2024
Question Stems for Students
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...

22 October 2024
Sound in Contemporary Art
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...

22 October 2024
Rubrics Landing Page
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)...

20 October 2024
Critical Investigation (B)
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...

20 October 2024
Zere, CS HL
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...

20 October 2024
Zere, Exhibition HL
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”...

20 October 2024
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