Year+13+Art

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 * =Course Overview=

The year's work will be a rigorous, ongoing investigation of ideas, imagery and methods which is fundamentally workbook and research based. Ideas and techniques from last year may be developed. Students need to be aware that all standards at Level 3 are FIELD specific. The investigation will take place over three terms and result in submission of a body of work in the form of a portfolio (THREE A1 panels) for external assessment in Term 4 (3.4, FOLIO, 14 credits). This will be referred to during the year as the 'major assignment'. Students will have the opportunity to document and submit aspects of their ongoing investigation as evidence for particular internal assessments. These will be referred to as 'minor assignments'. All students will be required to hand in work in progress as evidence towards 3.2 (4 credits) and/or 3.3 (4 credits) at the end of Term 1. Students will have the opportunity in Term 2, 3 and 4 to have further selected work assessed as evidence for internal standards. There is an opportunity for a major finished artwork to be assessed for internal standard 3.5 (4 credits). There is also an opportunity for students to use their written research in Art towards a L2 English literacy standard worth 5 credits. Examples and exemplars of work for each standard are available in class. Resources to help students understand their artist models and to develop a better understanding of assessment criteria are available in class and online. The type of investigation that students pursue during the year must be appropriate to 'established practice' in their chosen field(s). ||

Major Assignment
Starts Day 1 & ends in Term 4 with completion of the FOLIO [with milestones for formative and summative internal assessment during the year]
 * 1) Students will explore selected examples of drawing ideas and established practice to initiate a personal investigation
 * 2) Students will begin a personal collection of inspiring visual ideas (ongoing)
 * 3) Research into specific aspects of established practice using relevant artist models will be done alongside practical application and testing of ideas and techniques.
 * 4) Students will be required to make a personal drawing study in a chosen field using a selected principle artist model. The purpose of this study is to learn particular field related skills and conventions and to develop these to a point of mastery in relation to the investigation journey.
 * 5) Workbook and practical work outcomes will be discussed critically in relation to goals and artist models with a view to clarifying and developing key ideas and methods
 * 6) Reference to a new artist model in ongoing research and in the drawing study to test and develop ideas and methods
 * 7) Evidence of the development and refinement of key ideas is required in the form of a sequence or series of individual related works before the end of Term 1. These works and supporting workbook documentation are expected to form a body of evidence for internal standard 2.2 and or 2.3.
 * 8) Ongoing cycles of investigation are expected to be repeated several times in order for students to generate, analyse, clarify, develop and synthesise ideas and techniques for their FOLIO. At mid year and end of year practice exams, students will be able to confirm submissions for internal assessments. || == How to collect & present evidence of your investigation ==


 * workbook -12-15 facing pages recording cycles of the investigation (Post-its and blutak used to reorganise imagery and notation as ideas are generated, analysed, clarified and developed)
 * ringbinder - sections for course info handouts, critical reflection cycles, established practice research, 'grazing'
 * clearfile - begin analysing - sorting, editing, ordering PRACTICAL WORK - ideas, experiments (blu-tak, post-its)
 * polywallet/box - material resources (accumulate & keep things you could recycle)
 * folio panel(s) - arranging selected work to show technical, conceptual and compositional //development// of connected ideas (ongoing)
 * PDF file(s) - milestone photographic documentation of work in progress for selected internal assessments ||
 * ==Minor Assignment(s)==
 * ==Minor Assignment(s)==

Tuesday 15 April 2014 - 11am
 * 3.2 and 3.3 - [field specific standards]- progress

Mid Year Assessment Week
 * 3.2 & 3.3 [field specific standards] - photo documentation (aim to complete internal assessment evidence for first formal grade)
 * Folio proposition
 * any finished work for 3.5

End of Year Assessment Week - details to come

Term Four - details to come || == Useful Links == [|NZQA L3 Standards] [|NZQA Clarification of Internal Standards] [|NZQA Best Practice Advice for Visual Arts] [|NZQA Field Conventions for Visual Arts Standards] [|NZQA Annotated Exemplars] [|NZQA Reports on Past Years' Achievement in Visual Arts Standards (dos & dont's)] ||