This will be a round table setting with some discussion points for teachers of the new DP Visual Arts Curriculum.
For example: - reflection on how the first year has gone - starting points: what we did to introduce the course to the students and how we would change this next year - challenges experienced: possible solutions - biggest benefits of the new curriculum and opportunities it has presented - timing of projects - building an understanding of assessment with the students
This presentation proposes developing ideas through materials as a new pedagogical approach in IB Visual Arts that introduces a new conceptual lens in art making that reframes how media is intentionally approached across media to deepen conceptual thinking. The session will discuss the conceptual growth that provides students with achievable and applicable understanding skill strengths in an IB continuum that is best understood not through skill escalation, but through how meaning behaves as moves between digital and three-dimensional forms. This approach of migrating from media to media is a way to reframe artistic media not as separate units, but as cognitive environments that support the IB emphasis on conceptual understanding and reflective practice across the continuum. Especially applicable to the new DP curriculum that asks students to understand how to situate their BOW.
