How to Help Students Develop Their Sustained Investigation Topic
Helping students develop a sustained investigation topic of AP Studio Art that exits them and guides their work, isn’t always easy. Students are often used to being told what to create, or coming up with an idea, creating a piece and moving on. Exploring an idea throughout a course and creating multiple works around it can feel hard. It can also be fun.
The hardest part is often learning to ask questions and to make them clear enough to guide research and creation. A sustained investigation is about asking questions in written format and developing answers to those questions visually.