Planning, Assessment & Progression Course for Art & Design GCSE Textiles (ONLINE LIVE)

Description

*ONLINE LIVE COURSE*   (Through ZOOM)

Date:        Saturday 6th JULY 2024

Time:        9.00 - 14.00

COSTS & BOOKING:    £ 175 / DAY (+ Cademy Fee)  

*ALERT:    ECT/NQT's, TRAINEE TEACHERS, TECHNICIANS & SELF-FUNDING TEACHERS *

There are discounts for this course if you qualify. Please contact dawn@textileskillscentre.com for more information.

A New Motivational Online-Live Course for Teachers of GCSE Art & Design Textiles 

IF you need support with understanding and implementing the Art & Design specification, then this course will give you what you need.

This is an *ONLINE LIVE WORKSHOP* with the Textile Skills Centre, covering 4 different art textiles specifications at GCSE Level: AQA, Edexcel (Pearson), OCR & Eduqas. 

The course is designed to be interactive and there are several tasks to complete during the day as well as a personal assignment on ‘promoting textiles in your school’, which can be completed in your own time. Many exemplars and guides are included on the course and can be downloaded for future use.

Our aim is to support, encourage and inspire you, so that you can support, encourage and inspire your students!

REVIEWS FOR THIS COURSE:

What to expect on the day:

This course will support your understanding of the specification, plan a scheme of work, understand the assessment objectives and how you can enable all students to progress.

• The specification: an overview
• Areas of study: how and why to select
• Subject content: looking at the main subject specific content for each specification
• Drawing for textiles: Looking at how each specification describes what drawing means in the context of textiles GCSE: A mark making lesson included and exemplars
• Annotation: What is expected at GCSE, with guides to artists research, designer research, keywords and descriptive words. All can be printed for display and student use as well as how to introduce annotation at KS3
• The personal portfolio and externally set assignment: overview, guides and exemplars
• Planning: planning and writing your own scheme of work. What does a scheme of work need? Looking at choice of themes, techniques, area of study, equipment, timing, your own and school timetable. 
• Assessment: understanding the assessment objectives and how to teach them
• Progression: how can you enable all your students to make progress. Assessment for progress, careers, enrichment, ambition. Guides, trackers and targeting sheets as well as many more ideas. 

There is also a ‘frequently asked questions’ list.

From the specification:

‘Art and Design equips students with the skills to enjoy, produce and engage with the visual arts throughout their lives, and it has immense value as a GCSE subject.’

What you take back to school:

• Plan the future with confidence. 
• Understanding of your specification.
• Great, achievable ideas to enhance your teaching
• Develop best practices in teaching and learning and be able to use these to create a dynamic course that is fast paced and engaging.
• An awareness of available resources to support your existing practice.
• Make secure decisions and save time with gained knowledge and experience.
• Continued professional development.

What is special about the Planning, Assessment & Progression course?

The Planning, Assessment & Progression course is an experience that delivers textiles knowledge and understanding. This learning environment allows you personal creative engagement to gain new ideas, showing how these can be incorporated into schemes of work and lesson plans and delivered in a fun, inspiring and engaging way for your students. You can ask questions direct to the course developer/leader, you will have time to make resources and network online with other teachers.

Course Developer and Leader:    NICKY SIMPSON

Nicky Simpson
PGCE; BA(Hons) Textiles Design: Specialising in print.

Your course leader is NICKY SIMPSON, a contemporary textiles artist, who has 12 years teaching experience, heading up Fashion & Textiles at Hillview School in Kent. She has taught Art & Design Textiles at GCSE and A Level, AQA Design and Technology/Textiles at A Level and GCSE and BTEC Level 3 Fashion. 

Her last set of grades were: A Level 100% A-A*; GCSE 70% A-A* (100% A*-B). She had a previous 22-year career as a print designer in the heart of London. For the past 6 years Nicky has been a workshop developer and leader for Textile and Art teachers on behalf of the Textile Skills Academy.

COSTS & BOOKING VIA CADEMY:    £ 175 / DAY (+ Cademy Fee)  

*ALERT:    ECT/NQT's, TRAINEE TEACHERS, TECHNICIANS & SELF-FUNDING TEACHERS *

There are discounts for this course if you qualify. Please contact dawn@textileskillscentre.com for more information.

All of the Textile Skills Centre events are payable IN ADVANCE. The Textiles Skills Centre uses Cademy to automate the bookings via credit card and cheque/BACS. When you book you will receive by email a booking confirmation and invoice.

If you have any queries, please email us at: info@textileskillscentre.com and include your phone number and/or email so that we can contact you easily.