New Course (First Exams 2027)
Digitizing Evidence: Developing a Draft
During your first year, plan to keep track of your explorations and processes in one place, such as a slideshow. Here we offer some suggestions for how to effectively digitize and keep track of process-based...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Organizing Your Evidence
While the artistic process may be incredibly messy, developing habits and clear systems for organizing and managing your digital evidence will save you huge headaches as you progress through this Visual...
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New Course (First Exams 2027)
Getting Organized
Getting Organized offers tips and suggestions to help you stay organized as you guide your students through the course. We'll focus on the following areas 1️⃣ helping students to become responsible for...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Interdisciplinary Extended Essay (2027)
This section of the site includes guidance for the writing and assessment of the extended essay for the first submission in May 2027. The extended essay is a 4,000-word paper that addresses a question...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Extended Essay Guide (2027)
The new Extended Essay (first teaching 2025, first exams 2027) In early February 2025, the IB released the new Extended Essay guide, for first teaching in 2025 and first examinations in 2027. The Extended...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
EE Assessment Criteria (new)
The new EE with first assessment in May 2027 has 5 criteria with a total of 30 points. For essays through 2026 please refer to Outgoing EE Assessment Criteria Framework for the Essay - 6 ptsKnowledge...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Visual Arts EE Topics
IS IT VISUAL? Be sure to choose a topic that specifically addresses the visual arts, including fine art, architecture, applied art and visual culture.The emphasis of the EE should always be on written...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Here you will find an overview of the new syllabus content and a summary of the learning objectives that form the pedagogical basis of the course. Despite some significant changes, there are many similarities...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Lines of Inquiry
A quote from Bauhaus artist Paul Klee: A line is a dot that went for a walk. A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ' In the Inquiry...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Documenting Your Artworks
Documenting your artwork is something to start in Year One of IB! Knowing how to photograph artwork will sharpen your general photo skills, improve documentation for your Art-making Inquiry Portfolio...