Music/Performing arts | Visual arts (Arts)

The Arts curriculum fosters the expressive and aesthetic potential of students by encouraging experimentation and stressing the importance of the creative process to promote critical thinking.

Units of Inquiry - Music/Performing arts & Visual arts

Grade 6

Music

Understanding Music

Music Performance

Band Performance

Grade 6

Visual arts

Tools & Techniques

Grade 7

Music

Music Analysis

Music Performance 2

Band Performance 2

Grade 7

Visual arts

Seeing the Whole

Grade 8

Music

Music Analysis 2

Music Production

Band Performance 3

Grade 8

Visual arts

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MYP Aims

The aims of MYP Arts are to encourage and enable students to:

create and present art
develop skills specific to the discipline
engage in a process of creative exploration and (self-)discovery
make purposeful connections between investigation and practice
understand the relationship between art and its contexts
respond to and reflect on art
deepen their understanding of the world.

Key Concepts

Aesthetics, Change, Communication, Identity

Related Concepts

Audience, Boundaries, Composition, Expression, Genre, Innovation, Interpretation, Narrative, Presentation +Visual arts: Representation, Style, Visual culture

Global contexts

Identities and relationships, Orientation in space and time, Personal and cultural expression, Scientific and technical innovation, Fairness and development, Globalisation and sustainability

MYP Objectives

Subject groups must address all strands of all four objectives at least twice in each year of the MYP.

A

Investigating

Through the study of theorists and practitioners of the arts, students discover the aesthetics of art forms and are able to analyse and communicate in specialised language. Using explicit and tacit knowledge alongside an understanding of the role of the arts in a global context, students inform their work and artistic perspectives.

B

Developing

The acquisition and development of skills provide the opportunity for active participation in the art form and in the process of creating art. Skill application allows students to develop their artistic ideas to a point of realisation. The point of realisation could take many forms. However, it is recognised as the moment when the student makes a final commitment to his or her artwork by presenting it to an audience. Skills are evident in both process and product.

C

Creating/Performing

The arts motivate students to develop curiosity and purposefully explore and challenge boundaries. Thinking creatively encourages students to explore the unfamiliar and experiment in innovative ways to develop their artistic intentions, their processes and their work. Thinking creatively enables students to discover their personal signature and realise their artistic identity.

D

Evaluating

Students should have the opportunity to respond to their world, to their own art and to the art of others. A response can come in many forms; creating art as a response encourages students to make connections and transfer their learning to new settings. Through reflecting on their artistic intention and the impact of their work on an audience and on themselves, students become more aware of their own artistic development and the role that arts play in their lives and in the world. Students learn that the arts may initiate change as well as being a response to change.

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