Art

21st Century Learning in the Visual Arts
 * # 1. The creation of clusters/pods of aspiring leaders, who act as action research teams with the aim of improving teaching and learning in the area of literacy and numeracy in the middle school. The focus on 21st Century thinking skills and the implementation of the National Curriculum will frame the goals and identified programs of the cross school and cross KLA teacher clusters. (Practice) (report = product) ||

Extensive professional learning experience delivered through a range of learning opportunities drawn from school visits, principal shadowing, master classes and briefings. Create process and tools for the validation of the learning process in our cluster of schools from K-12
 * Each collaborative team will develop a project that improves teaching and learning in the community of school through:

21st Learning in the Visual Arts classroom is a marrying of the traditional and the non-traditional. Contemporary artists utilise technology in a variety of ways whether it be for research, design or artmaking. Technology is a form for artmaking just like painting or drawing. As educators, "how can we combine the old with the new?" The Visual Arts group aims to analyse what is going on in the Visual Arts classroom in our community of schools and to provide a platform for teachers to collaborate, in-service and share ideas that will advance and inspire the learning environment for our new generation of artists. ||