Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Many A-Level Art & Design students do not reach their potential grades due to a lack of intellectual rigour within their written element of component 1 – The Personal Investigation.

This revised course tackles the lack of connection between written material and practical work. Through hands on workshops, we will explore how students must demonstrate; clarification of their investigation, substantiate decisions made in their practical work, be reflective and insightful and show analytical and critical understanding of contextual sources. We will show you good practice examples, unpick it, and explore ‘off the shelf’ teaching strategies which respond successfully through time saving and empowering approaches.

This course will put you in the ‘shoes’ of your students, take you by the hand and provide you with essential skills and ideas for teaching and learning practice across both components for A-Level Art & Design.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Enable your students to meet the top mark bands in your title
• Teach your students to use specialist vocabulary in relation to their practical work
• Employ insightful annotation leading to in depth continuous prose
• Utilise written work to inform the direction of practical work and make students’ outcomes ‘better’.
• Reach the top mark band or A* by extended thinking within your students written and practical work
• Take away essential strategies to build an effective curriculum structure for the two year course

PROGRAMME

Examples of good practice – Written Element – The Personal Investigation Basic, Better, Best – Workshop

10.00am

•  Examine written element good practice
• Unpick examples and identify national pitfalls
• Essay vs Journal vs Evaluations

Break

11.15am

Workshop – Constructing the successful written element – from annotation to continuous prose

11.30am

• Understanding Assessment Objective 1 & 3 in conjunction with one another
• How to use annotation thoughtfully & meaningfully in a personal manner
• Strategies for organising thoughts and expanding ideas with key word and concepts
• Constructing continuous prose in a meaningful, insightful and personal manner

Lunch

12.30pm

Fusing learning evidence: connecting the practical and the written tasks – workshop

1.30pm

• Understanding Assessment Objective 2
• Contextual references and ‘Launch Pads’. Ideas for what to teach in the classroom.
• How to expand student thinking and improve grades with The Personal Investigation and the exam component.
• Creative risk taking – the drivers which relate written to practical work.
• Making ideas ‘better’!

Break

2.30pm

How embracing the written element can impact on Component 2 A-Level Externally Set Assignment

2.45pm

• Understanding Assessment Objective 4
• Workshop – How to form links between a variety of sources.
• How to expand student thinking and improve grades with The Externally Set Assignments.
• Planning – Key Learning Strategies for the Successful Art & Design student

Plenary – Hints and tips

3.30 – 3.45pm

Depart

3.45pm