Author: James Robinson
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Helping Students Develop their Written Analysis Skills at GCSE
It took me years to find a formula that works when getting GCSE students to write about other artists. I suspect I’m the only teacher who has tied themselves up in knots, creating word banks and boxes and matrices. I’ve tried them all. Of course, the ‘official’ guidance from some exam boards is that students…
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Good Practice at A level
As artists and teachers, we cringe at the thought of 2 students in our class making an identical portfolio of work – it’s a habit at KS3, by necessity, that every student follows the same project, learning the same skills and even developing identical sketchbook pages, but surely what we really want children to do…