Visual Arts (167 total posts)

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The Comparative Study – answers to questions

March 4, 2020
I have received some Comparative Study questions from teachers who participated in a previous category 1 visual arts workshop and am sharing my responses now with others through this blog. In some cases, I have also referred to things written by the online...
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Arts assessment: Thoughts and Suggestions

November 29, 2019
We are in the middle of the November visual arts examination session so I thought that I would highlight some assessment-related things that friend and colleague Jayson Paterson recently said on My IB. (As many will know, Jayson is one of the My IB visual arts experts...
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Sensitive Issues in Art and the ‘spectrum of offence’

November 20, 2019
A while ago I posted a blog entitled ‘Nude vs Prudes’. I was a little exasperated that our life drawing workshops appeared to make a colleague so uncomfortable. But of course, nudity is just one of a number of sensitive topics and we need to be sensitive to the...
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Are you ready for the new “revised” Visual Arts course?

November 15, 2019
No, of course you aren’t, because the final report on the course will not be seen by teachers until 2021 and you won’t start teaching it until 2022 – but hey, it’s a-coming! What’s happening next? We are approaching the end of a long but interesting journey: the...
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Five Years of the process portfolio

August 16, 2019
We have now had FIVE full years of the ‘new’ visual arts course. It was started in 2014, with first examinations in 2016, so for those of us who have been riding this particular horse from the start, the annual hurdles (aka annual examination sessions) should be...