Visual Arts - Curriculum Support Resources

The following learning and teaching resources are for teachers’ reference and use. Some materials (e.g. music scores, audio and video files, visual images) are not available in the online version due to copyright issues. Teachers may select appropriate parts as classroom learning content or extended learning materials.

Handbook for Visual Arts Teachers
Guidelines on Safety
Art Appreciation and Criticism in Context Series
Example of Process for Portfolio
Assessment for Learning Visual Arts Portfolio
Multimedia Learning and Teaching Resources
Examples of Teaching Design
Reading to Learn
Glossary
Pilot Project on the Development of Learning Outcomes Frameworks in Visual Arts

Handbook for Visual Arts Teachers

PDF

(Chi Only)

Guidelines on Safety HTML

Guidelines on Safety for Visual Arts in Primary Schools
Guidelines on Safety for Visual Arts in Secondary Schools

Art Appreciation and Criticism in Context Series
The following materials are dispatched to schools for teachers' reference. For enquiries, please email to cdova1@edb.gov.hk.

Part 1: What is Art Criticism? PDF	Part 2: Understanding Chinese Art through Culture PDF	Part 3: Understanding Western Art through Culture PDF
Part 4: Understanding Hong Kong Art through Culture PDF	Part 5: Understanding Design from Different Perspectives PDF	Part 6: Examples of Photography in Context PDF
Part 7: Examples of Understanding Chinese Art Through Culture PDF	Part 8: Examples of Understanding Western Art Through Culture PDF	Part 9: Examples of Understanding Hong Kong Art Through Culture PDF

Example of Process for Portfolio
The following material is dispatched to schools for teachers' reference. For enquiries, please email to cdova1@edb.gov.hk.

Developing 4 Pieces of Work with PROGRESSION under a Theme - an Example of Process
(for Senior Secondary Schools)

PDF

Assessment for Learning Visual Arts Portfolio
The following material is dispatched to schools for teachers' reference. For enquiries, please email to cdova1@edb.gov.hk.

Assessment for Learning Visual Arts Portfolio
PDF

Multimedia Learning and Teaching Resources

[Maintenance in progress] “Learning Visual Arts Knowledge with Progression – Colour” (Trial Version) (Chi Only)

Visual Arts Learning Promotion Videos
The Arts Education (AE) Section of the Curriculum Development Institute has produced three short videos to record students’ participation in the learning activities organised by the AE Section and the sharing of their learning experience. In addition, several professionals, including art educators, art historians, artists and designers, also shared their unique experiences and feelings of participating in visual arts in the videos.

Welcome to watch the following short videos to savour the meanings of learning visual arts.

	Learning Visual Arts is Fun ► Explore the interest and new experience in the visual arts.
	Learning Chinese Culture through Visual Arts ► Learning visual arts is closely related to the understanding of Chinese culture.
	Cultivating Multiple Skills through Visual Arts ► Learning visual arts develops a variety of knowledge and skills.

Examples of Teaching Design

“Learning and Teaching of Drawing: Hong Kong Architecture” Short Video Series (Chi Only)
The videos aim to foster students’ interest in drawing and appreciation of local architecture, and nurture their positive attitudes towards cultural heritage.
- Lower Primary Affection in the Grids
  
  Appreciate the grid architecture of Hong Kong, and draw the windows of apartments for expressing the affection of households.
- Upper Primary: Old Buildings, Come Alive!
  
  Appreciate the proportion and symmetrical structure of traditional Chinese buildings, and revitalise them with imagination.
- Junior Secondary: Seeing Architecture
  
  Appreciate streets and buildings in Hong Kong, and draw them with expressive lines for presenting the affection towards the community.

Values Education ─ Animal Protection (Chi Only)
- Animal Protection Series (Chi Only): Lower Primary
  PPT
  Upper Primary
  PPT
  Junior Secondary
  PPT
Value Education ─ Healthy Lifestyle
- Healthy Lifestyle in a Day at Home (Lower Primary), Defender of Hygiene (Upper Primary) and Loving Lives (Junior Secondary)
  PDF
- After the Rain Series: Lower Primary
  PDF
  Upper Primary (Chi Only)
  PDF

Reading to Learn PDF

Glossary

Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in the Learning and Teaching of Visual Arts
PDF
Vocabularies for Describing Visual Phenomena
PDF
Vocabularies for Describing an Artwork/ a Design Work PDF

Pilot Project on the Development of Learning Outcomes Frameworks in Visual Arts (Chi Only)

Introduction

PDF

Phase 1: Literature Review

PDF

Phase 2:
Part 1 – Building Up of Visual Arts Assessment Framework
Part 2 – Trial of Visual Arts Assessment Framework
Part 3 – Examples of Visual Arts Assessment Framework

PDF

Phase 3:
Learning Progression Framework (LPF) 3 – Examples of Visual Arts Assessment Framework

PDF