New Course (First Exams 2027)
Sticky Note Critiques
Sticky Note critiques are an accessible option for students to give feedback to their peers. This strategy can be used for students to give one another feedback mid-process or through a more formal critique...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Guidelines for a Critique
Any time is a good time for an IB Art class critique and certain moments are more obvious: the end of a marking period, or when work is being gathered, collated, selected, but I believe work in progress...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
FAQs
FAQs below address the outgoing curriculum (last exams 2026). This resource is a work in progress and will be updated to reflect questions that are asked increasingly on the site to give you immediate...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Structure and Freedom
A page intended for new teachers on finding the equilibrium between teacher led direction and independent student initiated exploration "Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom." Leonardo Da...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Course Planning
Design the course that meets the IB requirments, fits your school, your schedule, and your students using the resources available on this site. Everything you need is at hand. The beauty of IB Visual...
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Ethical Use of AI in IB Visual Arts
Artificial Intelligence models are swiftly interrupting and changing not only education but also creative industries. Image generation models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have sampled over...
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Approaches to Learning [ATL]
One of the important aspects of the IB program is that students are able to recognize how they learn. The IB considers your ability to reflect on your own learning as important as the ways that your teacher...
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Asking Questions
We, Heather and Shannon, think one of the best features of your subscription to the InThinking Visual Arts website is your ability to ask questions of the site authors. We love your questions! Please...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Situating Prompts Free
This resource was designed to accompany the Unit Plan Where am I? (Part 1 of 4), however these questions can be used to help students get a sense of themselves at the start of year one as they learn to...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
A (new) Sense of Place
The title of Gauguin's painting Where have we come from, where are we now, where are we going?[1]asks a marvelously complex question, one that a lifetime of art making can only begin to address. The...