I offer useful resources for teaching and assessing Art & Design, and developing Teaching & Learning.
As well as 26 years currently teaching Art & Design, I've been a Teaching & Learning Development Coach, a Most Able/G&T co-ordinator, and a member of SLT; so I'm happy to offer a range of materials.
Write a review of a resource you purchase, and I will offer you your next one free :-)
I offer useful resources for teaching and assessing Art & Design, and developing Teaching & Learning.
As well as 26 years currently teaching Art & Design, I've been a Teaching & Learning Development Coach, a Most Able/G&T co-ordinator, and a member of SLT; so I'm happy to offer a range of materials.
Write a review of a resource you purchase, and I will offer you your next one free :-)
My most popular resource is the personal investigation planning document.
Now I have complimented this with all the resources you will need to deliver the entire personal investigation component, which is 60% of the A’Level assessment.
Everything A’Level art teachers from any exam board need to use to deliver the P I to their students, from July in year 12 - February in year 13.
Each Lesson powerpoint is full of images and examples of pupil work, and follows the same structure to link in with the planning document for you to issue to students.
One Powerpoint of learning springboards, for use at the end of y12, to kickstart students investigations, before they leave for the summer break
7 extensive Powerpoints each with content descriptors, tasks, lesson starters and video links - one for each of the 7 components of the personal investigation planning document
student self planning documents for students to precis their ideas, easily
checklists for teachers to track pupils progress
summer task worksheet - to spring board your students into their study, from y12 into y13
gallery/London trip homework sheet
and of course…
assessment objectives cited throughout
key vocabulary cited throughout
illustrations and art examples throughout
Knowledge recall and vocabulary explained, throughout
The personal investigation is made easy with these structured and supportive resources.
No more excuses for your students to say they don’t know what to do next, and everything you as teacher need to deliver this component!!
All of the resources are editable, to suit your own school and students.
A fun and easy to understand powerpoint suitable for KS2 & 3 pupils, that explains how artists like Kandinsky used abstract art to depict emotions and music. As well as art making activity - it contains easy to use literacy templates for pupils to write about their art works, and sound clips to get the pupils listening, thinking, - and painting!
Lesson objectives, starter, review and PLTS prompts are in the powerpoint slides, so its an easy and practical resource to use without adaptation.
Suitable for non specialists and art teachers alike - who want to teach pupils about abstraction, and how colour can be used to explain emotions.
An introductory lesson to Matisse - creating a collage.
These can be made individually, or in groups. Slides map out the outcomes needed, and roles for effective team work!
Includes literacy prompts, video links to Matisse at work, review tasks and a recap quiz :-)
All you need to support spellings and reinforce the teaching of key art vocabulary , for KS3 Art. This bundle gives you everything you need - to teach, test and display the words you want your pupils to know.
spellings powerpoint - with key words of y7 & 8 - adapt these using other words, if you prefer
spellings strategies cards - engaging pupil friendly cards, that pupils can use individually or in groups - to learn their spellings
spelling tests grid - for pupils books.
Demonstrate your pupils progress and cover literact across the curriuclum, too!
A Level teachers of Art & Design looking for all they need to deliver the Personal Investigation, in Y13 - will love this set of resources.
They support your teaching of the unit methodically, yet creatively!
Avert crisis or blank pieces of paper, with these tools.
pupil plannng proposal form - for pupils to map out their ideas
pupils detailed proposal form - with essay content suggestions, deadlines and word counts
integrated homeworks and London research trip tasks
illustrated Power Point for you to adapt and use in class
annotation prompt help sheet [which in fact you could use with any art class]
summer Homework task - to kick start the project at the tail end of year 12
We have used these annually in my own school for several years, and they work so well for us I thought they were definately worth offering for you to use.
Art & Design GCSE teachers will find these excel countdown documents VERY useful. I have found that using them has boosted our grades to 5% above National Average - and I work in a deprived Academy!
Each one charts the activities pupils can follow, as they plan for their final or mock exams. They could also be adapted for use with coursework projects.
The issue many art teachers have [myself included!!] is OBLIGING pupils to make work, even if they are ‘stuck’ for ideas. These sheets minimise that possibility. They make pupils create outcomes, EVERY lesson. This generates work that is then presented for each Assessment Objective.
I have found it really focusses and motiviates the pupils, if they have to mount up work for each AO on a display sheet.
Each of these countdowns:
has 3 tiers of difficulty for each task set - allowing you to differentitate
can be adapted to suit your calendar - just change the dates, and number of 3 tiers lessons you need in each week
can be printed off individually, or merged into one document, for display
can be shared with parents/carers - electronically if you wish - so its easy for them too to know, what their children should be working on.
So; no blank pieces of paper, and no blank stares from stressed out pupils, stuck for ideas!
Do try these yourself, and let me know how you get on :-)
AQA GCSE powerpoint to show pupils as the consider their options - contains embedded creativity film and creative hamster in a paintball video, to amuse and capture your audience!!
Many students will have gaps in their learning, to close, for a variety of reasons.
These resources will be especially useful for y10, 11 and y12 & 13 pupils in Art & Design, but could be used by other years, too.
There are 17 Resources in total.
Centred on each AO [Assessment Objective] they rapidly oblige pupils to create art for assessment
AO1 - how to research artists and make work in reponse to them. How to annotate the responses pupils make, using key words the exam boards want.
AO2 - a range of activities centred on different materials and techniques, for pupils to do, and annotate their findings
AO3 - observations and annotations. Tasks are set from real life and secondary resources. How to develop these ideas into the pupils own personal creative responses
AO4 - developing and finishing pupils own personal responses, and preparing these for display, and assessment.
Each AO is split into separate, chronologically sequenced tasks, starting with AO1.
Each set has images, text and a set of 4 ‘independent study’ questions. All have literacy support materials and key words to use.
Each task sheet is in word, to make them easy to upload and send home electronically or printed, and/or their content could easily be cut and pasted into your own lesson slides.
There has been much talk in the Art & Design teacher community about how to routinely close the gaps created in pupils learning - so I have put these resources together to try to assist with that big task!
Pre - plan your Art & Design curriculum offer in this exceptional year, using these resources.
Use ‘as is’ or adapt to meet your own needs.
Overview of curriculum offer for every year group - including materials, artists, duration, content
Cumulative skill and difficulty projects - to move students forward every year, and prepare them for future exam success at GCSE and A level
Timeline of artists - coverage virtually every art period in history
BAME coverage statement - also attached
Literacy links
Top ten ‘elements’ overview of y7 formal elements of Art & Design
Take the headache out of planning, and hit the ground running with your structure in place :-)
Bamboozled by how to teach pupils to mix and use Primary and Secondary colours?
Need a ready to use Powerpoint that explains how to, with templates ready for pupils to paint on - A3 and A4 size?
Need to cover literacy key words and set a Homework that the pupils will enjoy?
Look no further. All are here!
I’ve included 2 levels of difficulty in 2 sets of Lesson objectives, and I’ve also included extension tasks for more complex colour mixing experiments, on the A3 sheet - to challenge and extend.
There are some vibrant photos of sweets at the end of the power point - for pupils to paint directly from, or to print off to draw from for the homework task :-)
Enjoy!
Two powerpoints that will get your pupils talking positively about why rules are necessary in your classroom, and then ask them to capture their understanding of the rules, in a poster.
Lots of prompts for dialogue and agreement, and structured with clear rules and outcomes, so that pupils will understand what you want, whilst being empowered to take responsibility for their own compliance, and so also their future success!
Adapt the rules I have suggested, to meet your own needs :-)
An introduction to the art of making tone, with a focus on defining what tone is, and how it can be made.
5 lessons, each with a homework, containing fun creative tasks exploring tone making using pencil, charcoal, the amazing artist Escher, and simple methods using shadows and directional light …
An ‘off the peg’ set of lessons that will get your pupils creating tone - that you can adapt and extend to suit you. I’ve included a tone and light worksheet, for pupils to print off and use - either in tonal pencil or in colour.
Literacy skills and evaluation are addressed, and pupils will finish the sequence of lessons with a good understanding of how to create and analyse tone - ending with an observational drawing to demonstrate their skills. this could easily be made an end of topic test.
3 presentations to compliment my popular coaching Plan-Do-Review resource.
Each contains practical information and prompts to help you coach and develop teachers.
Can be used as a self study resource for someone who wants to develop their coaching skills - individually, or in teams
Could be used as prompt cards for coaching sessions - or in training others
Key T&L content is:
top tips for coaching success
5 suggested prompts for coaching sessions
how to coach colleagues at different levels of T&L expertise and experience
how to evaluate your coaching, to enable further growth
Art & Design A level teachers will find this countdown document VERY useful. I have found that using them has boosted our grades last year to 16% above National Average - and I work in a deprived Academy!
For each of the 4 assessment objectives, it states the activities pupils can follow, as they plan for their final or mock exams. They could also be adapted for use with coursework projects.
The issue many art teachers have [myself included!!] is OBLIGING pupils to make work, even if they are “stuck” for ideas. The sheet minimises that possibility. They make pupils create outcomes, EVERY lesson. This generates work that is then presented for each Assessment Objective.
I have found it really focuses and motivates the pupils, if they have to mount up work for each AO on a display sheet.
The countdowns:
has 3 tiers of difficulty for each task set - allowing you / your pupil to differentiate
can be adapted to suit your calendar - just change the dates, and number of 3 tiers lessons you need in each week
can be printed off for display
can be shared with parents/carers - electronically if you wish - so its easy for them too to know, what their children should be working on.
So; no more blank pieces of paper, and no more blank stares from stressed out pupils, stuck for ideas! Lesson by lesson, your exam work is produced…
Do try these yourself, and let me know how you get on :-)
A template to use in Plan-Do-Review discussions with your teaching colleagues - as you coach yourself or a peer, to develop Teaching and Learning.
Aswell as the template, there are two samples used in real coaching situations - to give you an idea of how they might be used.
Great as they give you a clear set of goals for your development, that are easily tracked :-)
Stretch and Challenge cards linked to common Art project themes at KS3&4, with a template teachers can use to create their own. Suitable to print and hand to pupils as extension materials, or to populate a ‘Challenge Area’ in your differentiated classroom. Easy for pupils to understand, and flexible to use - and adapt to create your own.
A straighforward powerpoint with Blooms tiers tied to evaluating pupils own art work, or that of others.
Blue Screen to enable SEN pupils, with simple questions that elicit higher level responses from pupils at KS3, 4 &5.
Especially useful for MA pupils and those looking to increase their marks for AO3 at GCSE and A’Level.
Enables differentiated responses, in a clear and easy to understand way. Display it in class, or print it off as handouts.
3 Items that will make assessing your KS4 Art & Design pupils so much easier! Using the grade boundaries published last year, I’ve created resources that work for my own pupils, that tell them what grades they have - and so also - how to get better!
Here are:
An assessment grid in language pupils can understand - that you can highlight / write on - with the boundary marks for each GCSE grade, stated
A sheet of last years grade boundaries - that you can print off, for pupils to glue into their folders / sketchbooks
A marking tracker, that you can use to formatively record your marks on, with a space for pupils to write in their comments, too
I have found that by sharing the marking I do, and giving the pupils the chance of a re-mark, pupils [and parents] now more readily not just the grade they have - but what they can do to get better.
These helped us improve our departments marks by 10% to above national average last year!
Use this handy grid to oblige pupils to plan what they are going to do, next lesson!
Especially useful in art exam prep time - when you need pupils to commit to their next steps!
Leonardo is famous for his amazing drawing techniques.
This lesson profiles 9 drawing exercises he used, and gives pupils the chance to select from these, to make their own drawings.
Created in a format that is easy to use in on-line art lessons, at home, as well as in a real Art classroom
Linked to an on line article that describes each exercise and how it was used by Leonardo
Easy to follow power point that describes each exercise
Power point formated to allow pupils to create and insert their images into their own slide, before returning it to you!
This lesson will get your pupils to think about alternative ideas for drawing, whilst they make their own…
It will also give them a real insight into the creative processes of the legendary Leonardo Da Vinci!