Visual Arts & Design

The most important thing that we do teach in arts and the most important aim would be the lifelong appreciation of arts, even if you"re not going to become an artist. You can go to an exhibition or in everyday life where you can appreciate different artworks, you have knowledge about how it"s made and the quality. When we teach students art, there"s never a right answer. There are many different ways you can look at something and I think that"s a really important skill that visual arts provide.

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This week, we interviewed the Head of Visual Arts and Design Ms. Gloria Carnevale to find out about the arts program at ISNS and its uniqueness.

How is the arts department structured?

In middle school, the students have arts from grade 6 to grade 10. For grade 6 to grade 8, they will experience all three arts: Visual Arts, Music and Theater. When they get to grade 9, they start to narrow down their choices to two of the three arts of whatever one that they feel most interested in and when they get to grade 10 they only choose one which they take all year long.

In the diploma program，art is an optional class.. The students who choose it are usually students who are interested in going to study art or design or they just generally like art.

How are subjects in Art taught at ISNS?

We look at the New Brunswick(Canada) standards for visual art and then we map it to the art standards for IB. What"s really good about the art program is that it"s really open. As a team, we get together and scaffold the skills that the students need to learn from grade 6 all the way to grade 10.

In grade 6, students learn a lot about the elements of art and they are exposed to many different art forms to get a feel of what it is to be an artist and to create. And as the years go on to grade 10, it gets a bit more focused.

What is unique about Teaching and Learning at ISNS for Arts?

For units of inquiry, the most important thing about art is to give students the ability to have creative thinking. In the world we live in today, it"s not about memorizing things or knowing things, it"s how we are able to think on our feet creatively, come up with options and how we think critically. These are really important things that the students learn in visual arts class.

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One thing that"s really unique about our school is we use “Teaching Artistic Behaviors” called TAB and that really focuses on the student as an artist and how the classroom is their own studio. Students are encouragedto think like artists and make good choices.

https://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/our-history/

In the primary years program, we do that a lot and the students have a lot of student choice and ownership over what they do. When they get to middle school, from grade 6 to grade 10, we have a unit called the studio project.

Every year the students get to create an artwork of their choice, so they go through the creative process, the art cycle and IB where they learn to investigate, develop, create and evaluate the artwork. They will research an artist, use research techniques and go through the process of creating an artwork of their choice.

A lot of the time, students come up with these amazing projects that the art teachers probably wouldn"t have come up with on their own. They bring their own spin and style to the project, which I think really gives them a lot of ownership.

By the time students get to the diploma program, they should know enough about the different media that they"re doing. They get to choose the work that they want to do. It"s really great preparation for the students in Grade 11 and 12. The skills they have built over the years allow them to create a body of artwork with their artistic intention for their IB assessments. It becomes cohesive and their creations will be shown during their DP Exhibition at the end of the diploma program.

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视觉艺术与设计

在艺术中，我们教授的最重要的事情和最重要的目标是可以终生欣赏艺术，即使你不会成为一名艺术家。当你去看展览或欣赏生活中的艺术时，你知道它是如何制作的，质量如何。我们教学生艺术时，从来不会给出正确的答案。同一件事物每个人都有不同的视角去看待，我认为这是视觉艺术提供的一项非常重要的技能。

本周，我们采访了视觉艺术与设计部门的负责人Gloria Carnevale老师，了解 ISNS 的艺术课程及其独特性。

视觉艺术课程结构如何安排？

中学学生从6年级到10年级都需要学习艺术。从 6年级到8年级，学生将学习三种艺术：视觉艺术、音乐和戏剧。当他们升到9年级时，他们开始将选择范围缩小到他们最感兴趣的三门艺术中的两门，到10年级时，他们只需要选择一门全年学习的艺术。

在高中最后两年的课程中，艺术是选修课。选择它的学生通常是有兴趣去学习艺术或设计的学生，或者是单纯喜欢艺术的学生。

视觉艺术课的教与学是怎样的？

我们按照加拿大新不伦瑞克省的视觉艺术大纲标准，然后将其融合到IB的艺术课程的标准中。关于艺术课程，特别好的一点事，它是很开放的。作为一个团队，我们聚在一起讨论，搭建学生从6年级到10年级需要学习的技能。

在6年级，学生们学到了很多关于艺术元素的知识，他们接触了许多不同的艺术形式，以了解成为一名艺术家和进行创作的意义。随着年级升到10年级，艺术课程的学习变得更加深入。

艺术课教与学的独特性是什么？

对于探究单元来说，艺术最重要的是赋予学生创造性思维的能力。在我们今天生活的世界中，重要的不是死记硬背，而是我们如何能够创造性地思考，提出不同的表达形式以及我们如何批判性地思考。这些是学生在视觉艺术课上学到的非常重要的东西。

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我们学校独特的一点是，我们使用称为TAB 的“艺术行为教学实践”，它让学生将自己视为艺术家，以及如何将课堂变成自己的工作室。鼓励学生像艺术家一样思考并做出正确的选择。

https://teachingforartisticbehavior.org/our-history/

在小学课程中，我们一直运用TAB，学生们对他们所做的有很多选择权和自主权。当他们上中学时，从6年级到10年级，我们有一个叫做工作室项目的单元。

每年学生都可以创作自己选择的艺术品，他们会经历完整的创作过程和艺术周期和IB学习，调查、开发、创作和评估艺术品。他们将研究一位艺术家，研究艺术手法，完成创作他们选择的艺术品。

很多时候，学生们创造出的艺术作品都非常惊艳，我们老师可能都不会想到。他们给作品赋予了自己的风格特色，有很大的自主权。

当学生们进入大学预科课程时，他们对正在做的不同艺术形式有了足够的了解。他们可以选择自己想做的创作。对于11年级和12年级的学生来说，这确实是一个很好的为将来做准备的机会。他们多年来积累了很多技能，在IB评估中将能创作出具有艺术意图的连贯的艺术作品，他们的创作将在文凭课程结束时的DP展览中展出。

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