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Welcome to InThinking Visual Arts!
Teachers are busy people, and art teachers may be the busiest of all! This site is designed for you to find all the information you need to successfully teach IB Art. On this site you will find a variety of resources to supplement and inspire your daily teaching.
It is our heartfelt wish that this website may ease your load, save you time, and maybe even make teaching a little more fun, Happy teaching!
Site Overview... Finding stuff
The website is vast but easy to navigate once you get the hang of it...
It is organized like an upside down tree with top level headers and branching sub-sections. Placing your cursor over headings will reveal the drop-down menus for each section. The sitemap will allow you to see the whole website at once. If you can't find something you are looking for, you may also search by putting a key word in the search box on the upper left side of the screen. Frequently consulted pages can be saved to your starred favorites so you can find them again easily.
The page Navigating the Site has tips for new users and you can always Ask Questions and get answers.
New Course (First exams 2027)
The new Visual Arts Guide with first exams in 2027 is here, the 79-page document is available on MyIB. Our mission here at InThinking is to unpack the guide for you, synthesize the aims and objectives…
New Course Components HL and SL
The pages in this section provide a close look at each of the assessed tasks and their requirements. You can also find student-facing resources and guides here as they are created and added.
(New) Course Planning
The IB Visual Arts guide (first exams 2027) defines the structure of the new course with a clearer focus on objectives in the first year, saving key assessment tasks for the second year. The guide urges...
Inquiry Resource Library
A collection of starting points for year 1 students: ready-to-use activities that stimulate inquiry or explore creative problem-solving. Insights into artists and how they find inspiration. A little something...
Assessment (first exams 2027)
We've used the language from the new syllabus to create a series of color-coded rubrics showing the criteria for each assessment task (first exams 2027). There are five rubrics in total; only the Art-making...
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Navigating the Site
For those of us who are visual learners, it might help to think of the site like a tree with limbs ( main headings) and
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Rothko on Teaching Art
He wrote extensively about children's art education, a subject he cared deeply about. Although Rothko taught art to young
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Managing Student Access
Initially, this site was designed for IB Visual Arts teachers but over the last several years, we have opened it to include
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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
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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
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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