Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Artists and Curating
This section of the website explores the importance of looking at, responding to and presenting art to the world. The Visual Arts Guide encourages students to become aware of how art is curated and displayed,...
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AI Teaching Strategy 2: Reflections
Adapting to the Times As internet tools quickly adapt to the generation of new artificial intelligence, teachers are having to reflect, by taking a longer look at themselves, their teaching practices,...
Welcome
AI Teaching Strategy 1: Art Vocabulary
While many teachers fight new battles with AI over age-old issues with maintaining Academic Honesty, we are looking for creative ways we can use this tool to improve instruction. Generative AI offers...
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AI in IB Education
This page aims to present key points of the current discussion around the use of AI in IB education and provide some guidelines for referencing when AI tools are used as sources. As this situation is...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Curiosity Cabinets
Level: challenging Artists can use methods similar to those used by archeologists and scientists in gathering categorizing and displaying objects, but science follows different rules. When an artist...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Rubrics Landing Page
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)...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Internal Assessment SL
SL students will create a number of artworks throughout the two-year course as part of their Internal Assessment (IA). Keeping in mind goals to develop a coherent body of work that reflects technical,...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
The 7 Assessment Objectives
These objectives are learning goals embedded across the visual arts curriculum and in the Assessment criteria (first exams 2027) for each of the component tasks. To better incorporate these objectives...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Supervising an Extended Essay
As a Visual Arts teacher you will most likely be asked to supervise a number of Visual Arts EEs, from as few as one to as many as six or seven essays. I recommend taking on no more than 5 to avoid EE...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
EE Assessment Criteria
for EEs assessed until and including November 2026, the criteria are 5 for a total of 34 marks. Criterion A: focus and method....6 marks Criterion B: knowledge and understanding.....6 marks Criterion...