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Art and Design COURSES CALL US TO FIND OUT MORE Face-to-face courses are available from 210 per event. Key Stage 2/3/4 Art and Design: Making a difference - inspirational project ideas for Key Stage 2/3/4 Art and Design This course will give you plenty of motivational project ideas to raise performance standards, including a look at approaches to research and critical studies using pattern, architecture and portrait themes and a chance to explore approaches to project planning and students critical thinking. Suitable for: all teachers of KS3/4 Art and Design looking for fresh ideas KS2 teachers and teaching assistants art technicians. Course tutor: Tony Jackson Key Stage 3 Art and Design: Engaging boys in the art room Ofsted research highlights that boys significantly underachieve in Art and Design and this new course is designed to address this issue by providing a range of practical ideas and strategies to close the gap and to engage boys in art. We will look at targeted schemes of work and explore how different roles in the art room can help. The course will focus on how to encourage progress with the use of praise and will provide a range of suggestions for differentiated activities. The strategies suggested will work equally well in mixed classroom settings as well as boys only groupings. Suitable for: KS3 Art and Design teachers looking to engage boys. Course tutor: Kate McGregor 2 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN Key Stage 3 Art and Design: Nurturing the gifted and talented Key Stage 3/4 Art and Design: Inspiration Day This exciting one-day workshop will introduce you to tried and tested techniques to challenge, engage and motivate boys and girls of all abilities. It will give you ideas for invigorating your teaching and for raising the profile of art in your school as well as tips and tricks for sourcing funding for your department. We will explore inspirational ideas for bitesize projects for KS3 and look at how to prepare your students for progression to KS4. Suitable for: all teachers of Art and Design teachers wishing to develop new ways to encourage student progression from KS3 to KS4 heads of Art. Course tutor: Kate McGregor Key Stage 3/4 Art and Design: An introduction to Photoshop Teaching the gifted art student can be a challenge, but with a differentiated programme, a willingness to learn and the right approach you can keep these students motivated and achieving. This practical course will consider how to assess gifted and talented students at KS3, look at differentiation, explore ways to stretch the gifted and talented student and provide a teacher's toolkit. Suitable for: all teachers of KS3 Art and Design. Course tutor: Ceara Waterhouse This exciting one-day workshop will introduce the basics of photo manipulation and give you the opportunity to produce an exciting, contemporary digital illustration using Adobe Photoshop. It will demonstrate how the introduction of digital media can help to engage students of all abilities and can lead to increased take up at KS4 and help raise attainment. There will be an opportunity to look at a wide range of examples of student work that covers GCSE assessment objectives. Suitable for: all Art and Design teachers at KS3 and KS4 who would like to introduce a new creative element to their department all teachers of practical creative subjects (Art and design, DT, English and Media) teachers who would like to produce exciting original resources for their classroom. Course tutor: Russ Cast t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign 3
Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Make your mark - the importance of drawing The 2012 OFSTED report states that too few pupils develop their creativity through confident drawing. The report found that where pupils had good drawing skills this underpinned higher achievement in secondary school and post-16 education. This course will show how drawing and mark making can be an exciting, non-threatening activity and will look at using drawing as a starting point for recording and experimentation using a variety of media, such as emulsion paint, ink, wax, bleach, graphite, 3-D drawing. The course will explore new methods and techniques that will have an immediate impact on teaching and student success and will relate drawing in its broadest sense to the work of a wide variety of artists, practitioners and makers. Suitable for: all teachers who deliver Art and Design to Key Stage 3/4/5. Course tutors: Tony Jackson Jeff Teasdale Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: A flying start for NQTs a first year survival guide This highly practical new course will focus on all the tools and tips you need to survive in your first year of teaching. We will explore ways to boost your confidence so that you can appear confident, calm and assertive in all situations, whether dealing with students, colleagues or parents. There will be sessions on time management, classroom management, target setting, how to manage reluctant learners and making the most of classroom displays. You will leave the course confident that you can maximise your students learning and that you can cope with the daily routines of school life. Suitable for: Art and Design NQTs. Course tutor: Kate McGregor Key Stage 3/4 Art and Design: Managing behaviour effectively in the art room This course will look at helping you play a significant role in raising standards in the Art and Design department by learning how to effectively manage behaviour in the art room and how to apply this knowledge to improve practice and enhance achievement. It will focus on how to deal with persistent low level disruption, improve attitudes to learning, consider practical techniques for engaging learners and think about how to identify issues and find solutions. Suitable for: all teachers of KS3 and KS4 Art and Design. Course tutor: Kate McGregor 4 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN Key Stage 4 Art and Design: Developing and delivering outstanding lessons What does outstanding look like? This course will look at helping you play a significant role in raising standards in the Art and Design department by learning how to create outstanding lessons and applying this knowledge to improve classroom practice. The course will explore the features of outstanding lessons and what Ofsted will expect to see. It will consider how to differentiate learning outcomes and think about strategies and techniques for incorporating active assessment for learning in lessons. There will be the opportunity to look at outstanding lesson observations and to consider what can go wrong and strategies to prevent problems. Suitable for: all teachers of KS4 Art and Design. Course tutor: Kate McGregor Key Stage 5 Art and Design: Developing practical approaches to critical and contextual studies This engaging, practical and stimulating course will help you with planning and delivering Key Stage 5 Art and Design across all endorsements. It will give you strategies to help improve your students critical and analytical understanding and encourage them to make informed connections with contextual and other sources. The course will focus on developing both visual and written work and look at how to engage students with their initial investigations and forming a personal response. It will provide you with practical workshops to help encourage your students with the development of insightful, informed and personally driven work. Suitable for: all KS5/Level 3 Art and Design teachers in schools and colleges teachers of the gifted and talented KS4 art student teachers of BTEC Art and Design courses non specialist teachers NQTs. Course tutor: Mark Coombe t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign 5
Key Stage 5 Art and Design: Developing and delivering outstanding lessons Key Stage 2/3/4/5 Art and Design: Construction, deconstruction, reconstruction What does outstanding look like? This course will look at helping you play a significant role in raising standards in the Art and Design department by learning how to create outstanding lessons and applying this knowledge to improve classroom practice. The course will explore the features of outstanding lessons and what Ofsted will expect to see. It will consider how to differentiate learning outcomes and think about strategies and techniques for incorporating active assessment for learning in lessons. There will be the opportunity to look at outstanding lesson observations and to consider what can go wrong and strategies to prevent problems. Suitable for: all teachers of KS5 Art and Design. Course tutor: Kate McGregor This hands-on practical workshop with an AQA moderator and professional sculptor allows you to discover the natural sculptor within you and gives you the opportunity to engage with a range of cheap and readily available materials to make a complex but quick 3-D structure within a group setting and to experiment and to develop the possibilities in your own work as the day progresses. The course relates directly to the Assessment Objectives of our GCSE and A-level specifications and makes reference to a wide range of artists. No prior conventional or academic training in art and design is necessary. You will learn how a simple idea can be adapted and developed into a huge variety of outcomes, including masks, birds, fish, sculptural environments, figures, abstract structures in both 2-D and 3-D, and to any scale, large or small, all readily translatable into exciting 2-D and 3-D sculptural classroom practice. Suitable for: all teachers and assistants who are responsible for the delivery of art education in: primary schools special schools secondary schools adult, higher and further education settings. Course tutor: Jeff Teasdale 6 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN The best practical course we have experienced in decades. More please. * Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Painting with acrylics Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Pigments and painting Acrylics are easy to use, reliable in hue [colour] and consistency, inexpensive and quick to dry ideal for producing a painting in a day! A studio atmosphere will set the scene for a practical course where you will be guided through two essential stages in creating a painting: Grisaille the underpainting in shades of grey, and Colour the mixing and application of hue. These practices will be explored in the context of individual developmental needs whether as primary or specialist secondary art teacher, subject leader or classroom assistant. The course will show how painting develops visual analysis, practically informed judgments and clear thinking skills. Suitable for: teachers and teaching assistants of secondary Art and Design, Fine Art and Craft and Design. Course tutor: Steve Blundell This enjoyable, hands-on workshop will introduce you to the origin of pigments and paints, how they are made, how they behave with water/oil-based media and how they work on different surfaces/ papers. The course illustrates how practice-based learning can enhance teaching and learning in art and it will give you the opportunity to rediscover your own creativity and to take back work to inspire your students. Suitable for: all practising KS3/4/5 Art and Design teachers. Course tutor: Steve Blundell t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign * Anonymous 7
Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Making it sculpture workshop Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Working the surface This practical workshop provides a highly effective introduction to relief mixed-media painting. During the day you will have the opportunity to use a range of materials including card and sand and you will walk away at the end of the day with your own completed canvas which you can use to illustrate potential outcomes to your students. The delegate pack comes with an invaluable resource CD containing a project presentation with examples of work from students and the course leader. Suitable for: teachers responsible for delivering Art and Design from all Key Stages. Course tutor: Tony Jackson Key Stage 4/5 Art and Design: Confidence with a camera from initial concept to final image This enjoyable, hands-on workshop will introduce you to construction using single ply card and a range of materials and techniques to make a stunning sculpture from a cardboard box This idea can be used to develop projects with your students and the potential for further development linked to drawing, painting, photography and 3D. The course will reference many contemporary artists. This approach to sculpture has proven to significantly raise student performance, especially for boys. Suitable for: teachers of post-14 Art and Design (Applied, Fine Art, Graphic Communication, 3D Design, Photography, Unendorsed and the Creative and Media Diploma) who are seeking to extend their creative skills and raise performance, especially for boys. Course tutor: Tony Jackson In this hands-on, practical workshop with a professional photographer you will look at processing a brief and discrimination of images, practise the creative use of camera control and learn about lenses, exposure, resolution and colour balance. You will also have the opportunity to take plenty of photos and get feedback on your images. Suitable for: Art and Design teachers currently teaching Photography at KS4 or KS5 who would like to improve their own skills, understanding and knowledge. Course tutor: Norman Fryman 8 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: Glass fusing workshop Key Stage 5 Art and Design: Textiles - fabric manipulation This highly practical course will focus on working with a range of different materials, surfaces and embellishments to design and create accessories. You will learn a variety of fabric manipulation techniques, create your own accessories to take away and consider strategies to guide students through the same processes. Suitable for: all teachers of Art and Design who are delivering Textiles. Course tutor: Alison Rhodes Key Stage 3/4/5 Art and Design: The Inspirational Head of Art and Design In this hands-on practical workshop with a professional glass tutor you will learn how to cut glass safely; how to translate a design idea into fused glass; how to successfully fuse a range of materials within sheet glass and will gain technical understanding of the fusing process in a kiln. This course relates to the assessment objectives for GCSE and A- level Art and Design. No previous experience with glass is necessary. All samples can be kiln fired for you if required. Suitable for: all KS3 5 Art and Design teachers regardless of awarding body. Course tutor: Linzi Lloyd Thomas This two-day programme, developed and delivered by current heads of art, is designed to make an immediate impact. It will help boost your confidence, show how you can develop an inspirational vision for your department and give you the opportunity to share, discuss and learn from other Heads of Department. This course will include sessions on engaging your team, producing inspirational schemes of work and handbooks, carrying out effective classroom observation, dealing with inspections, dealing with difficult colleagues and raising the profile of the department. Suitable for: new and aspiring heads of Art and Design. Course tutors: Mark Coombe Gillian Farrell Jane Boswell David Mumby Mark Madriaga t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign 9
Teaching skills From meeting the requirements of Ofsted, through focusing on literacy skills and differentiation, to improving pupil progress, these courses focus on the general teaching skills that really make a difference. Key Stage 3/4/5: Ensuring pace and progress in learning Key Stage 3/4/5: Narrowing the gender gap Pace and progress is crucial to learning. This course will unpick the Teachers Standards and Ofsted Handbook to understand what Ofsted inspectors require. You will explore the latest research behind what makes effective feedback and how best to use this with your students. You will identify ways of adding pace and challenge to your lessons ensuring maximum progress for all. The course covers: understanding the latest legislation and guidance developing lessons with pace to increase the progress of your students confidently giving and receiving feedback in the classroom making an immediate impact in your lessons. Suitable for: all teachers wanting to enhance their practice. Course tutors: Tim Pank Lynn Henfield Girls often outperform boys. This course will help you explore the learning differences between the genders, using current research. You will look at factors that affect how boys learn, such as organisational context and culture and identify ways to overcome these. You will leave with resources, techniques and interventions for immediate use. This course covers: raising the achievement of boys whilst not forgetting girls exploring the myths that underpin learning differences building your confidence to challenge boisterous learners in your classroom. Suitable for: all teachers wanting to enhance their practice. Course tutor: Julie Olsson 10 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN Key Stage 1/2/3/4/5: SMARTBoard (TM) - essentials for teaching and learning Key Stage 4/5: Mental toughness for exam success Bring your lessons to life using a SMARTBoard (TM). This course will help you make full use of your SMARTBoard (TM) to engage and interact with your students. You will develop skills and knowledge to help you build interactive teaching materials (or re-purpose current ones) for immediate use in your classroom. This course covers: understanding the functions and features of your SMARTBoard (TM) using Notebook software exploring the use of the pen tray developing an interactive learning environment. Suitable for: all teachers wishing to develop their SMARTBoard (TM) skills. Course tutor: Dave Mather Explore ways to improve your students focus and emotional resilience for study, revision and taking exams. You will identify areas causing problems for your students, explore practical interventions and how to design targeted programmes to addess their needs most effectively. This course covers: exploring the four areas of mental toughness and how they affect exam success using the STAR model to identify problem areas interpreting a student mental toughness profile understanding practical interventions to address the needs of your students. Suitable for: KS4 and 5 teachers wishing to maximise student potential pastoral leaders senior leaders. Course tutors: Jenni Hallam Joy Cornthwaite t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign 11
Key Stage 3/4/5: Social networking - essentials for teaching and learning Key Stage 3/4: Staying ahead in your first year Embrace social networking in your classroom and see the benefits to student learning. You will explore the learning potential offered by NING social networks and see a great example of subject teaching with NING. This course covers: exploring the practical use of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom building and customising your own social network addressing some of the problems of displaying digital work demonstrating how to use blogs and podcasts as reflective journals integrating safety, security and acceptable use policies. Suitable for: any teacher or teaching assistant wanting to understand and explore the use of web 2.0 technologies to enhance teaching and learning senior leaders looking to develop integrated ICT policies and their delivery across the curriculum. Arm yourself with effective strategies for success in your first year of teaching. The course will provide you with practical tips and approaches that can be applied instantly to help you engage, motivate and inspire your students. It will teach you a variety of skills and techniques to build confidence, reduce stress and make an impact right from the start. This course covers: managing behaviour that supports learning developing strategies and techniques for excellence in teaching and learning reflecting on your own practice in order to raise standards in your classroom exploring language to manage behaviour and unlock motivation focusing on planning lessons to maximise learning. Suitable for: newly or recently qualified teachers or those aspiring to the role. Course tutor: Julie Olsson 12 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
ART AND DESIGN Exactly what I was looking for. Full of practical ideas and ways of building skills. * Key Stage 3/4: Becoming a coach - developing teaching and learning Key Stage 3/4: Narrowing the gaps in your classroom Develop the skills you need to effectively coach and support your colleagues in the development of their teaching and learning practice. By becoming a coach you will be instrumental in raising the standards of teaching and learning and promoting a culture of reflective and joint practice development in your school. This course covers: reflecting on learning theory linked to practice in the classroom considering models of coaching as a vehicle for supporting colleagues in their development of teaching and learning identifying the skills and processes of effctive coaching through reviewing coaching in practice beginning to develop the skills required needed to be an effective coach. Suitable for: all teachers who have an interest/responsibility for supporting colleagues in the development of their teaching practice. Course tutor: Tim Pank Use hard and soft data to formulate a picture of any underachieveing groups you teach. You will look at approaches that make a difference with key groups and explore how multi-agency working can have an impact to close the gap. This course covers: identifying the common features of students falling behind helping you to self evaluate your current provision agaisnt these features exploring effective strategies to close the gap. Suitable for: all teacher and teaching assistants. Course tutor: Mike Hawkins Lynn Henfield t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign * Eleanor Francis, Vinney Green Secure Unit 13
AQA qualification training A-level Art and Design: Getting Started Autumn 2013 This one day course is designed for teachers who will be delivering this specification for the first time. It will offer a full exploration of the specification and different course delivery strategies. There will also be an exhibition of student work for teachers to engage with during the day. Suitable for: all teachers new to A-level Art and Design, NQTs and non-specialist teachers. GCSE Art and Design: Getting started with GCSE Art and Design Autumn 2013 This full day course will provide a complete tour of the AQA specification including a detailed look at the assessment objectives and specification requirements. It will also offer strategies for course planning and delivery and look at different approaches to the course. Suitable for: all teachers new to GCSE Art and Design, NQTs and non-specialist teachers. GCSE Art and Design: Feedback on GCSE Art and Design Autumn 2013 This course will give you the opportunity to reflect on this Summer s examination and review the grades for the course. Our senior examiners will use exemplar work, mark schemes and submitted work to give you feedback on student performance. They will highlight common pitfalls, suggest general strategies for best practice in preparing your students for the assessment and consider how this translates to the classroom. Suitable for: all teachers of GCSE Art and Design. A-level History of Art: Getting Started with A-level History of Art This 2-hour live online training has been designed to help those new to teaching AQA A-level History of Art by providing an introduction to the specification as well as a range of practical strategies to help get your teaching off to a flying start. Suitable for: those new to A-level History of Art, NQTs and non-specialist teachers. Exam changes In the summer term 2014 we will be offering you opportunities to learn about our new GCSE and A-level qualifications, for first teaching in September 2015. Please check our website for news of these events. 14 t: 0161 335 1100 e: teachercpd@aqa.org.uk aqa.org.uk/cpd-artdesign
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