AT TIS, three different Arts disciplines are offered: Music, Visual Art and Drama\/Theatre Arts. These Arts subjects offer students opportunities and experiences through which they are encouraged to develop a sense of self and an understanding of the complex world around them. The key skills of creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication, reflection, appreciation and feedback are explicit elements of our Arts curricula, but which reach beyond the confines of both classroom and subject area, extending to all areas of living and learning, in the present and into the future as lifelong skills.<\/p>\n
The Arts co-curricular program is designed to facilitate students\u2019 participation in the development and production of public events placing the greatest emphasis on the creative process and the experience of involvement. The co-curricular program extends and strengthens the skills, knowledge and attitudes of the curricular program and provides further opportunities for creative and artistic development.<\/p>\n
In both curricular and co-curricular Arts, active learning-through-doing, taking creative risks and experimenting with ideas and concepts, position students\u2019 learning in an authentic context with authentic demands, whilst embodying a student centred approach.<\/p>\n
The development of critical skills is embedded in a holistic Arts curriculum, which embraces the teaching of the \u2018whole\u2019 student. Students are encouraged to face what is uncertain, make creative connections, engage imaginations, learn how to express themselves effectively and develop respectful and supportive ways of interacting.<\/p>\n
TIS is one of only two hundred and twenty schools worldwide (*) which offers all three IB programmes, and which is therefore able to deliver continuity in Arts education across all grades. The IB continuum of international education provides a progression of learning for students aged 3 to19. Reflection, evaluation, artistic self-expression, collaboration and communication are intrinsic to the beliefs and values held in each programme.<\/p>\n
The incremental development of knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills through units of inquiry nurture students\u2019 reflective approach to their own work as well as a deeper understanding of the role of the arts in society, the world, and in their own lives.<\/p>\n
Tashkent International School offers subject specific Arts education in Music, Visual Art and Drama throughout the school and across all three IB programmes.<\/p>\n
*Statistics published be the International Baccalaureate, http:\/\/www.ibo.org\/facts\/schoolstats\/progcombinationsbyregion.cfm, (accessed 29.01.14)<\/p>\n
MYP Aims<\/strong> Diploma Programme Subject Aims<\/strong> and specifically in \u2026<\/p>\n Music:<\/p>\n Visual Art:<\/p>\n Theatre<\/p>\n Subject specific information<\/strong> Assessment in the Middle Years Programme (MYP) Arts subjects<\/strong><\/p>\n A. Knowing and understanding<\/strong> In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:<\/p>\n i. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the art form studied, including concepts, processes B. Developing skills<\/strong> In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:<\/p>\n i. demonstrate the acquisition and development of the skills and techniques of the art form studied C. Thinking creatively<\/strong> In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:<\/p>\n i. develop a feasible, clear, imaginative and coherent artistic intention D. Responding<\/strong> In order to reach the aims of arts, students should be able to:<\/p>\n i. construct meaning and transfer learning to new settings
The aims of MYP arts are to encourage and enable students to:<\/p>\n\n
The aims of the IB Diploma Programme Arts subjects are to enable students to:<\/p>\n\n
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In Grade 6, 7 and 8, students study one of the three Arts subjects each trimester. In Grade 9 students select two arts disciplines on which to focus, studying each subject for one semester. In Grade 10 students select one Arts subject which they will study for the duration of the year.<\/p>\n
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 specialized 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.<\/p>\n
and the use of subject-specific terminology
ii. demonstrate an understanding of the role of the art form in original or displaced contexts
iii. use acquired knowledge to purposefully inform artistic decisions in the process of creating artwork.<\/p>\n
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 realization. The point of realization could take many forms. However, it is recognized 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.<\/p>\n
ii. demonstrate the application of skills and techniques to create, perform and\/or present art.<\/p>\n
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 realize their artistic identity.<\/p>\n
ii. demonstrate a range and depth of creative-thinking behaviours
iii. demonstrate the exploration of ideas to shape artistic intention through to a point of realization.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
ii. create an artistic response which intends to reflect or impact on the world around them
iii. critique the artwork of self and others.<\/p>\n