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...
