Category: Pedagogy
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Classroom Seating Plans
I have tried all sorts of classroom seating plans for lots of different reasons over the years and I thought I would share some of them with you. It’s all too easy to start the year with students sitting in alphabetical order and then forget about seating plans as a valuable teaching strategy. Having said…
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What is Differentiation in Art?
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…
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How to Learn Student Names Quickly: 26 Names within 5 Minutes!
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…
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Assessment for Learning Art Starter
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…
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How to Get Quality Art Research From Your Students
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?…
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Strategies to Manage Behaviour in the Art Room.
I’ve written this for J. She’s told me that she’s an NQT who’s really struggling with managing behaviour in the art room at the moment and feels like giving up. She feels unsupported which isn’t right. During my teacher training, I worked in a really tough inner-city school and felt really isolated and unsupported. I…