growthplan

My General Growth Plan:

  1. My educational growth plan is to increase my community presence. I will use what I have achieved to enrich my classroom and empower my students and Visual Arts and Design team members. I want to provide my students with real-life experiences. I will achieve this through making connections within the community and bringing them back to my classroom.

  2. My personal growth plan is to grow my practice as an artist and designer by creating artwork and exhibiting it. Through this I hope to achieve a positive mindset and a balanced lifestyle.

Ongoing Evidence:

2023 - 2024 Specific SMART Goals:

Relevant/ Realistic

How is it relevant? Yes. This is a hot topic for the Visual Arts and Design subject areas and generally many other subjects.


Timeframe

November 2023 : Attend AI workshop at ARWAE to learn about AI.

Decemeber 2023 :Start to experiement with AI in classes (Poe, Chat GPT)

January 2024: Attend EdTechGZ and attend workshops about how to use AI and Art

February 2024: Develop Guidelines for Visual Arts and Design for MYP and DP use with the department members

March 2024: Present guidelines to other DP Art teachers for feedback on how they use it in assessments

March 2024 - June 2004: Implement Guidelines via projects

Specifics

Who is involved? The Visual Arts and Design Department

What I want to achieve? I want to work on what Artificial Intelligence (AI) looks like in assessments in MYP and DP Visual Arts and Design. I want to develop guidelines for usage in assessment, implement it and gather data about how other Arts and Deisgn teachers/schools are using it within their departments.

When does it need to be achieved? September 2024


Measurable

How will I measure? Guideline Documents for Visual Arts and Design, Meet with other teacher from other school to get feedback.

How will I know I’ve achieved it? Completed documents, Meetings with Department, completed plans in place, PD on AI and Art, Adding this information to my assessments.


Attainable

Will it be clear? Yes we will be working on a documents of guidelines, and this will also be visable to project sheets and assignment instructions.

Artifacts from 2023-2024

2022 - 2023 Specific SMART Goals:

Relevant/ Realistic

How is it relevant? Yes. We would like to scaffold more media and skills into the curriculum. The MYP Arts curiculum changed this year, so it is nessessary to revamp and change projects. We also

have a new team for art and design, so it makes sense to review the curriculum.


Timeframe

April 2022 - IB MYP Arts Seminar - to discuss the changes

November 2022 - Host job-a-like for DP art teachers - network + can ideas

February 2023 - Team time to work with team off timetable (half-day) to develop the curriculum (Vertical Plan + Assessment criteria). Look for PD for staff to attend to suppor the curriculum.

March 2023 - Meetings to futher work on curriculum and sourcing equiptment

April 2023 - Prepare for presention to admin

May 2023 - Inventory, Presentation to Admin about new equipment needed, Middle leadership training

June 2023 - Order new equipment/resources for next year, half day off timetable to work on curriculum.

September 2023 - Start new Vericial Plans

Specifics

Who is involved? The Visual Arts and Design Department

What I want to achieve? I want work on revamping the MYP/DP Visual Arts and Design Curiculum with my department team.

When does it need to be achieved? September 2023


Measurable

How will I measure? Vertical plans for the department, Assessment criteria document, and meeting minutes

How will I know I’ve achieved it? Completed documents, Meetings with Department, completed plans in place, having team go on PD related to the curriculum, meeting minutes, feedback from department and admin.


Attainable

Will it be clear? Yes we will be working on the vertical plan, and revamping units and projects. We will use department meeting time, and arrange time of the schedule to work on this


Evidence - Design vertical plan, new equipment, professional development, articles

I was interviewed about the Visual Arts program at International School of Nanshan Shenzhen

Link to WeChat article:

Everyone Can Be an Artist@ISNS Visual Arts and Design|视觉艺术与设计第一章 >>

2021-2022 Specific Goals:

1) Leadership Goal: Community Presence

This is a part of my general growth plan that I have been working on developing since 2017. Each year, I try my best to continue this to grow as a leader who represents my department. I plan on doing this by showcasing what the Visual Arts and Design department does with our community and beyond. I plan on doing this by speaking at conferences about how we engage with the community, and also working with marketing to showcase this. I will also continue to work as a professional artist, as it helps me to network and make connections with the greater art community (and it is my passion). I would also like to empower my team, and would like to mentor staff about presenting what they do with the the community.

Progress evidence so far:

  • I presented at the 21CLHK Teachmeet Online about IPad Apps our students use for creating artwork

  • MY DP Students curated a Professional Artist Exhibtition

  • I Planned and hosted the DP Visual Arts Job-a-like for IB school in China at ISNS

  • I am organizing the DP Visual Arts Mock-Exhibition for DP Art student in Shenzhen. A membre of my department and I are guest teachers/artists as part of the panel.

  • I am presenting at the 21CLHK Online confernce about how our deparment worked with our tech integration team to create k-12 virtual exhibtitons for our school and parent community to view student work within our department.

  • I am working with Novalearn - this allows me to teach globally

  • I was a guest artist at Dongguan International School and I critiqued the exhibtion work of their DP Y2 Visual Arts students.

  • I guest lectured at Concordia University about Art Education and the community - ARTE 330 course

Articles:

Providing articles for marketing and weekly news/ quotes about my department

ISNS WeChat Post student wrote about Pattern >>

ISZAF Pattern Webpage on ISZAF.com >>

ISNS Weekly News (Oct 22 2021) - Donating Art to Captivating Charity Art Auction >>

ISNS Weekly News (Nov 30, 2021) - About the DP Mock Exhibition >>

ISNS Weekly News (Dec 3. 2021) - 21CLHK Conference >>

ISNS Infinite Charity art Auction Post >>

See Events >>

2) Department Goal: TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behaviour)

This has been something that my department has been working on for a while now. We do this very well in PYP and DP, but are slowly implementing it into the MYP/DP program more. Our goal is to develop this more this year in grade 6-8 through the studio project as a new unit, and to next year do this in both grade 9 and 10. Parts of this is creating more of a studio environment for students vs. having just a classrooms. Student are the artist and take more ownership over their learning. They are taught to think and work like an artist, with choice over what they create. We leverage the studio habits of mind for this. You can learn more by looking at the TAB Guiding Principles below.

Progress evidence so far:

  • This year, the exhibtion space became a studio environment for grade 10-12 students. This took me two year to propose and design with GA and Admin. Students were able to have thier own studio pace like real artists do.

  • I did a PD on TAB in July 2021 for high school. My department members also did this for primary and middle school

  • THE TAB Guiding Principles - My student did all of these in “What do Artists Do?” - Artists practice, Artists make art about things that matter to them, Artists work with ambiguity, Artists reflect, Artists build community through the DP program at ISNS.

Click image to view Joanne’s IB DP Visual Arts Exhibition - Artwork, and Artistic Intention behind artwork