TT1819 Cultural Catalogue

PRIMARY-SPECIFIC OFFERS
Art 4 Thinking
Project Name
Teaching Primary Art CPD
About the Project
Over the past twenty-five years, Pete McGuigan has
successfully led three large primary schools and run
regional and national schools’ action research
programmes - promoting creativity and the arts in
learning. Currently working to create resources for Art 4
Thinking, Pete believes real progress and success can
only be achieved by developing meta-learning capacities,
such as thoughtfulness, resilience, resourcefulness,
striving for quality, problem solving and working well with
others.
There is great scope for schools to do really interesting,
unusual and exciting work in art as a curriculum subject –
and this Teaching Primary Art CPD will give you an
opportunity to develop a wide range of ideas and
teaching strategies to do so.
Whether you are a member of SLT with an interest in
visual art, the art subject lead, or a non-specific class
teacher wanting to build greater confidence and
expertise in teaching art, this half-day CPD could help you
get more out of the art curriculum - both in terms of
curricular art activities and in overall approaches to
teaching and learning. The half day will be broken into
several different approaches, outlining:
• A practical group making session, with different
starting points
• Reflection on the processes and consideration of the
implications for your classroom
• Developing ways of helping children ‘read’ and make
sense of art by considering the range and scope of
the art we present to them
• Helping them engage with art through close looking,
asking interesting questions
• How to use experiences, existing knowledge and
imagination, which will help them to maintain their
interest and develop the skills to find out more
• developing a clear and systematic approach to
teaching art, that helps teachers focus on the range of
questions raised when children make their own work -
what, why, how, how can it be improved, what if, what
next…
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