Albany Senior High School/Curriculum plans/Visual Arts

= Curriculum Plan for Visual Arts =

Vision
At Albany Senior High School


 * we nurture each other
 * we inspire each other
 * we empower each other

How will we contribute to the realisation of the school’s vision?


 * The Visual Arts at Albany Senior High School enables individuals to engage fully in a creative environment and develop practical knowledge in the arts. Students will respond, reflect and critically contribute a depth of understanding whilst celebrating a sense of identity and self-expression through their art.

Values: How will we affirm and promote the school’s values?
We will promote excellence in all we do through:


 * Exceed expectations for our students and ourselves
 * Commitment to the visual arts and life-long learning.
 * Learning together within a supporting and nurturing environment.

We will promote excellence in all we do through:


 * Exceed expectations for our students and ourselves
 * Commitment to the visual arts and life-long learning.
 * Learning together within a supporting and nurturing environment.

We will develop warm, mutually respectful relationships through:


 * Getting to know our students and being responsive
 * Love of learning for Visual Arts.

Families as a part of our learning commmunity through:


 * Open door policy
 * Exhibitions and open evenings. Eg A Walk of Art
 * Developing a culture that celebrates Visual Arts.

Fairness, openness, honesty and trust through:


 * Maintaining opportunities for discussion, evaluation and reflection within the classroom
 * Being approachable and consistent
 * Establishing strong relationships with students to nurture, empower and inspire.

Learning together and making decisions together through:


 * Investigating artworks, group critiques and presentations.
 * Student peer assessment.
 * Inspiring independent students to respond and critque.

Using evidence and reflection to make decisions through:


 * NZQA exemplars and up to date assessment schedules.
 * Continuous conversations with students to feed forward.
 * Using formative assessment and effective milestones.

Curiosity and enquiry, creativity and innovation through:


 * Modelling passion and excitement for visual arts.
 * Practising art ourselves
 * Making connections between students' interest and course content
 * Offering a variety of visual art disciplines.

Protecting and enhancing the environment through:


 * Being conscientious of paper waste.
 * Using recycled materials where possible and including these in art making processes.
 * Sustainability in all that we do

Contributing to our local and Global communities through:


 * Student exhibitions and community dialogue
 * Using open source programes, developing e-portfolio, moodle and wiki's
 * Links with the wider Albany community
 * Understanding art in context and arts in the relation to social and cultural setting.

Diversity that enriches our learning community through:


 * Acknowledging contemporary and historical art making from a range of different cultures
 * Researching art and artworks from individual traditions and context
 * Celebration of diversity and identity through self-expression.
 * Creating multi-cultural art which can be displayed in our learning communities

Maori as tangata whenua of New Zealand through:


 * Research of art and artworks from Maori and European traditions and their context
 * Acknowledgement of the bi-cultural heritage of art-making in Aotearoa and ensure that the uniqueness of Maori art is recognised and valued.
 * Mentoring and reflection with students to help develop deeper understanding.
 * Use Artist Models which are Maori and European and look at ways bi-culturalism is used and displayed visually - documents history

Expectations
Expectations for teaching and learning including embedding ICTs

1. How will our teaching and learning meet the school’s expectations for 21st century pedagogy based on current research?

2. How will our assessment promote effective learning?

3. What does an effective 100-minute lesson look like?

Key competencies
How will we develop each of the key competencies in the learning area? How will we promote the split screen? These are a means and an end.

Curriculum design
What do we want our students to learn and/or develop?

Quality assurance
How will we ensure that standards are transparent, clear, reliable, valid and fair?

Self review
What data will we collect and how will we use it?