VISUAL ARTS ADVISER (Secondary)
School Support Services Visual Arts Newsletter Feb 2009, Term 1
Kia ora koutou,
News from Di Smallfield
Welcome back to the New Year.
The weather in the Bay of Plenty was kind to us
over Christmas so I have enjoyed many hours
sailing, fishing, and diving during my break.
I hope there are not too many surprises with your
NCEA results, but if there are, please do not
hesitate to contact me and I will try my best to
help you out.
This is my last year under this contract as:
.5 Art Adviser
.4 Te Kotahitanga with Tauranga Girls’ College
.1 Pre Service Tutoring
Welcome to all those new teachers into the job,
either as a beginning, returning or visiting
teachers. Please make early contact with me so I
can be of assistance to you.
NCEA
There are some new Activities up on TKI (Dec 08).
You really want to check these out as they provide the most
updated examples of what programmes might look like for
the internals.
There are generic templates for Level 1.1, 1.2 and 1.4.
Also some awesome new activities for Level Three
3.1
PTG – Domestic /Industrial Space
DES – Essential Communication
PHO – Setting the Scene
SCU – High Performance Space
3.2
PTG – Interior/ Exterior Space
DES – Text, Image and Layout
PHO – Reflections of Ourselves
SCU – Activated Space.
Even if you have are really experienced I strongly
recommend you download these and use them as a guide.
The Secondary School Arts Coordinators project
Changes in 2009
From next year there will be no application process. The
funding will be delivered directly to all eligible state and
integrated schools with secondary students through
operational funding (in January, April, July and October).
The purple NCEA booklet has been
updated for 2009 containing new
websites, templates, resources etc.
This will be available from Kohia as a
complete Booklet or as
replacement/additional pages for you to
insert into your existing booklet.
Please use the attached order form to get
a copy of this useful resource.
Have you bookmarked the NZQA Visual
Arts homepage yet?
Here it is again – your one stop shop.
Go to: Visual Arts homepage
From Sandra Chesterman: Just a
reminder that Art Historynet is the online
equivalent of Visartsnet, ready to help
you with specific art history information.
You can access resources on the
Teacher Resource Exchange
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/resourceexchange/Art%20History/
Courses coming up in our region
Provisional Registered Teachers
Year 1’s:
Hamilton:
11th March
Rotorua:
18th March
Gisborne:
26th March
Year 2’s:
Hamilton:
12th March
Rotorua:
19th March
Gisborne:
26th March
Go to pages 42/43 in ‘Choices’ magazine
to enrol, (page 13 for Gisborne).
Internal Visual Art Standards Best
Practice Workshops (Choices pg 49)
Facilitator:
Geoff Harris
Hamilton:
1st April
Taupo:
2nd April
Tauranga:
3rd April
For more information, contact ministry manager Tony
Turnock at:
tony.turnock@minedu.govt.nz
Tracy Murray, Visual Arts Adviser (Secondary)
Tauranga School Support Services,
Ph: 07 577 5314 Fax: 07 577 5315
142 Durham Street, Private Bag 12027, Tauranga
Mob: 027 278 0032
email: t.murray@waikato.ac.nz
How To Create a Dynamic Art Curriculum That Will
Engage All Students (Choices pg 48)
Facilitator: Jean Loomis
for NCEA
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/resourceexchange/.
Gisborne: 20 February & 31 July
I wish you all the very best for this year.
BIST Courses
Setting up a Digital Darkroom
Janet Jennings
Senior Adviser Arts
Ministry of Education
Ph: 04 463 7010
Facilitator: Sam Cunnane
Hamilton: March 30th
Well folks
Developing Student Ideas Around Street Art
All the best as you spend some
time establishing strong
relationships with your art
students.
Facilitator: Sam Cunnane
Hamilton & Tauranga: May 20th
Digital Photography Workshop
This is time well spent on
developing relevant contexts that
will carry them though into rich
learning.
Facilitator: Shay Hulsebosch
Tauranga: May 7th
Practical Bone Carving for the Teach/Arts
Facilitator: Ron Hall
Rotorua: March 27th
I look forward once again to
meeting up with old friends and
meeting new faces.
Artistic Excellence Makes The World Sit Up In Wonder
Please keep in touch.
Facilitators: Tracy Murray & Moana Browne
If I don’t hear from you, I assume
all is well.
Tauranga: May 14th
Nga mihi nui,
Ministry: Janet Jennings…
Happy New Year to all of you from the Ministry of Education
as you begin to provide transformative experiences in the
arts for your students of 2009.
Tracy Murray
I hope the ministry's arts website, Arts Online
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz, will continue to meet your needs this
year.
We are now in the second year of the implementation of
The New Zealand Curriculum (2007). Although it can seem
to you busy teachers that concepts such as “key
competencies” and “values” are not relevant to your
teaching programmes, I would encourage you to use the
new ministry-produced units and NCEA tasks, or hook into
the Interactive Unit Planner http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/iup/.
The Engaging with the NZ Curriculum area will be an
important bookmark for you http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/ - and the new
curriculum units will help you to engage with the curriculum.
Each discipline has support materials and units of work.
These are all available on Arts Online in the Engaging with
the NZ Curriculum area/Resources
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/resources/.
You can use them either as a source of ideas or new ways
of thinking, a model for producing your own tasks, or simply
download the resources for immediate use and adaptation.
Also, note that the Teacher Resource Exchange holds a
vast range of current resources for the new curriculum and
Tracy Murray, Visual Arts Adviser (Secondary)
Tauranga School Support Services,
Ph: 07 577 5314 Fax: 07 577 5315
142 Durham Street, Private Bag 12027, Tauranga
Mob: 027 278 0032
email: t.murray@waikato.ac.nz