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Educators' Guide for Pedagogy and Assessment

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Learning Area: Visual and Performing Arts

Art > LEVEL 8




Learning Area Outcome: I value my background and everyday experiences as sources of inspiration and can relate the visual arts to my immediate environment; ​I am able to draw on my curiosity, imagination and divergent thinking processes to pose questions and explore ideas, spaces, materials and technologies; I can apply skills and dispositions such as goal setting, working independently and collaboratively, showing initiative, experimentation and adaptability

Subject Focus: Encouraging the personal and collaborative responses of the learner: promoting curiosity, exploration, experimentation and invention.

1] I can demonstrate a personal interest in researching and learning about my local environment directly and from secondary sources.
LEARNING TO DO 
2] I can participate, with assistance, in the organisation of a class art exhibition within and/or outside the school premises.
LEARNING TO BE
3] I can discuss how artists have used techniques and the media to create different moods, effects and solutions.
 LISTENING AND SPEAKING
4] I can use a range of visual methods to express ideas and emotions through  a wide range of media which may  include digital media.
DIGITAL MEDIA
5] I can demonstrate the ability to tackle a simple design problem/brief using a variety of media.
6] I can fuse ideas, observations and feelings, to design, create and make images and objects.
7] I am aware of the importance of creative risk-taking in the development of my ideas and imaginative work.
8] I can listen to my group members and accept that they may have different viewpoints, and appreciate the different ways different people perceive things and express themselves.
SOCIAL LEARNING
9] I can understand that my peers may contribute to a task through their various abilities, skills and inclinations.
SOCIAL LEARNING
10] I am confident in discussing and posing questions.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
11] I am able to take the lead in a small group task.
INTERPERSONAL
12] I can manage goals and time.
PERSONAL LEARNING
13] I can respond to poetry and music in visual language.



Learning Area Outcome: I understand how to employ basic ethical decision-making when reflecting on my own and others’ art works and when creating art works that involve the intellectual and cultural property rights of others; I can interpret a variety of artistic forms, recognising and evaluating traditional, historical and contemporary works and identifying possible meanings; I understand the role of the visual arts in fostering lifelong learning. I am also aware of professional arts companies, galleries, museums, cultural organisations and creative adults, in Malta and the wider world, and their role in achieving such learning.

Subject Focus: Interpreting and Evaluating Art.

1] I can research artists, designers and their work by collating information from several sources including those from digital sources.
DIGITAL MEDIA
2] I can research information about cultural heritage from heritage sites and secondary sources.
LEARNING TO DO
3] When talking and writing about art, I can identify the media and techniques used to create the work. 
WRITING
4] When reflecting, discussing and/or writing about my own work and that of others, I can interpret its purpose and/or meaning.
WRITING
5] I can make reasoned judgements about my own work and that of others and develop my work further.
PERSONAL LEARNING
6] I can make personal statements about my own work and the work of artists and designers. 
7] I can evaluate the relevance of improvisational results to fulfil my intentions. 
8] I can demonstrate my understanding of  the artists' intentions and context for which the work was made. 
9] I can communicate my response to art which I am not familiar with in written, visual and practical forms.
WRITING
10] I can communicate my interpretation and understanding of art to a range of audiences.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
11] I can make links with other disciplines, such as History, Religious Studies and Ethics.
COGNITIVE
12] I can describe the difference between decorative and functional art.
13] I can communicate my response to different themes and genres in art.



Learning Area Outcome: I can interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments in a number of visual modes; ​I can apply my understanding of the properties of media and of techniques to specific tasks and purposes that will benefit user groups and audiences.

Subject Focus: Demonstrating understanding of Materials, Techniques, Skills, Media and Aesthetic Qualities.


1] I can use a number of ways of recording, such as a sketch-book.
2] I can select a single medium, both for use in its own right and as the basis for further development, in a variety of different media.
3] I can experiment with techniques and processes that give rise to unexpected results.
PRACTICAL
4] I can demonstrate an understanding of the importance of improvisation as a useful aspect of the creative process.
5] I can work confidently in a number of process-based activities occasionally combining media and materials.
6] I am aware that visual elements are central to the visual language of art and design, and I can use these in making images and objects.
7] I can discuss and demonstrate, through selection and display, the developments in my work as I acquire skills, and use a range of 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional media.
PERSONAL LEARNING
8] I can use perspective to create the illusion of space and depth on a 2-Dimensional surface.  



Learning Area Outcome: I understand the capacity of visual arts to address moral, ethical, social and political issues relevant to Malta and the wider world. I appreciate that the arts can be challenging and provide a space for addressing social difference as well as facilitating social and cultural cohesion; ​I understand that imaginative activity can be harnessed to produce outcomes that contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of Malta and the wider world; I know how to learn and update my knowledge of the arts.

Subject Focus: Art in Context.

1. I can discuss some of the ways in which historical elements of art and design are used to create new forms.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
2. I can identify art produced in Malta historically
and discuss the role of art in the national Maltese identity.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
3.  I can demonstrate how art has been used for different purposes e.g. as propaganda during wartime, reactions to poverty, sexism, homophobia and racism, and in memorialising historical events.
4.  I can demonstrate my understanding that I am responsible for my own art work and the images I produce.
5.  I can explore different art specialisms and discuss how such work reflects values in culture and society.
LEARNING TO KNOW
6. I can investigate differences in the way art was produced and experienced by audiences in a previous century and explain how this relates to and reflects the development of that society e.g. how codes and conventions represent ideas, beliefs and values in works of art, craft and design.
WRITING
7. I can talk about and I am motivated to visually express an imaginary solution to an environmental, social or economic issue.
LEARNING TO BE
8. I can discuss the ways in which cultural exchanges can lead to the production of new intercultural forms of art and design.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
9.  I can discuss how art relates to the contexts in which it is placed, such as site-specific art.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING




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