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The panoramic photographs of Manitoba landscapes in the website banners are used with the kind permission of © Stan Milosevic.

The “landscape” images and metaphor illustrated in the website banners represent current understandings about curriculum presented in the “Guiding Principles for WNCP Curriculum Framework Projects” (Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, 2011).

New ways of thinking about curriculum involve a “shift in the images we use, away from knowledge pictured as fragmented pieces put together, one piece at a time, in a linear fashion on an assembly line, to an image of knowledge as a complex organic network organized into living fields, territories or 'landscapes'. Learning about these living fields of knowledge requires: 'learning the landscape'.”

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Visual Arts

Implementation Resources

Pictures of Practice Kindergarten to Grade 8

The K-8 Music Pictures of Practice are intended to bring the Visual Arts Curriculum Framework of Outcomes to life. The Pictures of Practice offer possibilities for teaching and learning Visual Arts as experienced in authentic Manitoba classrooms.

Grades 9-12 Implementation Resources

A variety of 9-12 online resources are offered to support administrators and educators in designing, implementing, and assessing learning in visual arts using the four essential learning areas or wings of the visual arts curriculum framework: