Pedagogy

I’m delighted to show you these ‘GCSE Assessment Objective Posters’ made by art teacher Miranda Pennington.  You can find Miranda on Twitter @mirapennington  and also her school twitter account @strichardsart where there is lots of excellent work to be viewed. You can save these directly from this page; simply right-click and save.  These make excellent […]

Differentiation in art means providing for the individual needs of the students in your art class so that they all make progress. When I was training to be an art teacher I found differentiation to be very confusing and worrying. How could I possibly plan work that differentiated for each and every single student and […]

Do you struggle to learn student names? This guest blog post by Jo Baker details her tried and tested method on how to learn student names quickly. It’s a great read, especially as we get ready for the new academic year. I have been using this method since I was an NQT.  I am not […]

So what 10 resources on The Arty Teacher would help you make an excellent start to the new academic year?  I’ve listed below 10 must-have art resources that will help you feel organised for the year ahead.  Each resource is only £3 or $3 however each resource becomes just cents or pennies when you subscribe […]

This is one way to run an assessment for learning art starter which works well with all sorts of different work e.g. drawings, paintings, prints and more.  You can also run this as a plenary if you prefer.  You need students to be mid-way through of piece of work for this to be effective. Write […]

Isn’t it annoying when you see a beautifully presented research page and then quickly realise the information is just chunks of info that have been cut and paste from the internet?  Where’s the stickability in that?  They are not going to retain it for long.  How do you get quality art research from all of your students? […]