Paul Carney Arts Blog

Ours is such a vast discipline with many superb, brilliant, innovative and exciting ways to teach the subject. All ideas are welcome here, I do not believe there is a right and wrong way to teach art, simply ways that have been shown over time to work more effectively than others. What is important is teaching a love of the subject that lasts a lifetime. These are my thoughts, opinions and ideas on teaching art, craft and design. If you'd like to discuss any educational matters or find out about my consultancy services then please email me.

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The great uniform swindle

The new school year is upon us and with it comes the annual uniform debate, or should I say war, because that’s what it feels like. At...

Wire Flower

These beautiful wire flowers are ideal for older pupils to make using modelling wire. The same technique can be used for other designs...

Planning more meaningful art projects

I often see websites and facebook resources of artists grouped by style or theme with little or no underlying explanation of the meaning...

Idea Mining

Ideas are often very difficult to find. You often end up staring frustrated at a blank piece of paper, wondering where on earth the...

Negative impact of assessment

Assessment does as much harm as it does good. Overtime you labour over those purple pen comments or tedious rubric boxes that you have...

Ten tips for improving the quality of your Art & Design teaching

It’s very easy to get lost in the frantic world of teaching. You get caught up in the day to day and sometimes you forget what is at the...

Developing different approaches to making art

It’s important, when teaching art to understand that there are many different approaches to the making process. More often than not, art...

Art Learning Behaviours

In order to teach art you should identify what you feel are the most important learning attributes, behaviours and knowledge that your...

Bloom's Art Progression

Progression as Learning A while ago I developed this rubric based on Krathwold’s; ‘Blooms Revised Taxonomy 2001’ for developing learning...

General Intelligence or g and it’s impact on education

The pursuit of intelligence in education is extremely important to us as educators. SAT’s GCSE’s, A Levels, Degrees, are all barometers...