LEARNING TARGETS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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Four Learning Targets are set out to achieve the curriculum aims of the Arts Education KLA. These Learning Targets are inextricably intertwined and form the core of the Arts Education curriculum. They do not necessarily bear the same weight in the process of learning and teaching.

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Developing Creativity and Imagination.

Students should be able to generate ideas through imagination and creativity by participating in arts appraising, creating and performing activities.

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Developing Skills and Processes

Students should be able to use different materials, elements, arts language and resources to experience and express the arts. Exploration and experimentation in the creative process should also be treasured in arts education.

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Cultivating Critical Responses

Students should be able to appraise and respond to the arts and arts-related issues from multiple perspectives.

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Understanding Arts in Context

Students should be able to understand the arts in context and their relationship with human life and society.

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GENERIC SKILLS

Generic skills are fundamental in enabling students to learn how to learn. The following nine generic skills have been identified as essential to student learning for the 21st century in the school curriculum.

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• Collaboration Skills

• Communication Skills

• Creativity

• Critical Thinking Skills

• Information Technology Skills

• Mathematical Skills 

• Problem Solving Skills

• Self-learning Skills

• Self-management Skills

 

VALUES AND ATTITUDES

Values education is an essential and integral part of the school curriculum. It is implemented through different components in KLAs/subjects, moral and civic education, cross-curricular learning opportunities and life-wide learning experiences. With reference to the revised Moral and Civic Education Curriculum Framework (2008), seven priority values and attitudes are identified to reflect the uniqueness of Hong Kong as an international city in which both Chinese and Western cultures and values co-exist and interact. They are perseverance, respect for others, responsibility, national identity, commitment, integrity and care for others. They are of vital importance for students’ whole-person development to meet their own needs as well as those of society.

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Information Technology in Education

Information Technology in Education (ITE) helps unleash the power of our students to learn and excel through engaging in interactive and self-directed learning. It also helps strengthen students’ computational thinking competences, and enhance their creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. It is envisaged that e-learning, which refers to an open and flexible learning mode involving the use of electronic media to achieve the learning objectives, will be commonly used in the arts classroom. While the learning and teaching effectiveness is enhanced through the use of elearning, due attention should be given to nurture students’ information literacy (IL), which refers to the ability and attitude leading to the effective and ethical use of information and information technology, and helping students become responsible citizens and lifelong learners. The Arts Education KLA provides authentic contexts for using IT in the learning and teaching of the arts. In the process of appreciating, creating and performing/presenting the arts, students can also develop IT skills and information literacy for meeting the challenges of the rapidly changing digital world.

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STEM EDUCATION 

STEM is an acronym that refers collectively to the academic disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. In the Hong Kong curriculum context, STEM education is promoted through the KLAs of Science Education, Technology Education and Mathematics Education. The aims of promoting STEM education in schools are to strengthen the science, technology and mathematics education and to nurture versatile talents with different levels of knowledge and skills for enhancing the international competitiveness of Hong Kong. The objectives of promoting STEM education in relation to student learning are:

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to develop among students a solid knowledge base and to enhance their interests in Science, Technology and Mathematics for further studies and careers in face of the changes and challenges in the contemporary world; and

to strengthen students’ ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills, and to nurture students’ creativity, collaboration and problem solving skills, as well as to foster the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit as required in the 21st century.

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Students should realise that the development of science, technology and mathematics is closely related to the societal environment. Advancement in science and technology can help improve the quality of life, and facilitate the economic growth and sustainable development of Hong Kong. The Arts Education KLA can contribute to the promotion of STEM education through incorporating elements of STEM into arts learning activities. For example, teachers can:

• guide students to discuss and appraise works of the arts from the scientific, technological and mathematical perspectives for widening students’ scope of understanding about the arts;

• assign project work (e.g. designing a video game) and engage students in learning across the Arts Education, Science Education, Technology Education and Mathematics Education KLAs; and

• invite students to apply technology to explore alternative means for creating and performing the arts.