Course Description
This course will enable students to gain a more meaningful understanding of visual arts through inquiry-based instruction designed to develop students’ creative and analytical skills. As a result, students will learn to use art as a means to convey their feelings, personal perspectives and ideas about the world around them, while also reflecting on the work they produce and evaluating the work of others. Instruction and learning will be guided by the following IB MYP aims for visual arts courses:
• enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts
• explore the arts across time, cultures and contexts
• understand the relationship between art and its contexts
• develop the skills necessary to create and to perform art
• express ideas creatively
• reflect on their own development as young artists.
• enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts
• explore the arts across time, cultures and contexts
• understand the relationship between art and its contexts
• develop the skills necessary to create and to perform art
• express ideas creatively
• reflect on their own development as young artists.
Curriculum Overview
The curriculum of this course promotes inquiry and will encourage you to explore key concepts related to the visual arts, such as aesthetics, change, communication, and identity. The curriculum also encourages investigation into related concepts such as interpretation, expression, innovation, and presentation. You will explore these key and related concepts through the following MYP global contexts:
- identities and relationships
- orientation in space and time
- personal and cultural expression
- scientific and technical innovation
- globalization and sustainability
- fairness and development.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment criteria that will be used to evaluate your work is grouped into four categories, which are knowing and understanding (Criterion A), developing skills (Criterion B), thinking creatively (Criterion C), and responding (Criterion D). The four criteria refer to what a student should be able to accomplish as a result of studying the arts. You will have many opportunities to show your mastery of each criterion through out the school year. For a more detailed explanation of each assessment criterion and the rubrics that will be used to evaluate your work please visit the MYP Arts guide online.
Process Journal
Your process journal will be a self-maintained record of your artistic intentions, processes, accomplishments, and artistic development over time. Your journal will be a tool that will allow you to manage your art making experience, while documenting both your critical and creative thinking. As mentioned in the course description, you will be encouraged to engage in the process of creating art without fear of failure because the process of art making is as important as the product. Consequently, your process journal is a key component of the course because this is where you will record and demonstrate your creative thought process, which will be assessed regardless of the success or failure of the artwork you ultimately produce.
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For additional information on all of the topics discussed above please visit IBMYP Subject Brief for the Arts.