All schools are under enormous pressure to improve their GCSE grades and maximise the potential of every student. This CPD course for teachers considers how best to plan and deliver lessons which embrace the new GCSE specification for Art and Design and achieve enhanced results.

School Leaders and OFSTED are constantly demanding greater and greater pupil progress, while most art departments are trying to understand new whole school assessment strategies that often seem counter-intuitive to good progress in art.

With these pressures in mind, teachers of art and subject leaders need to ensure they are working effectively and efficiently, to improve outcomes to the highest levels possible in order to get the maximum results at GCSE.

This course aims to show you how you can achieve that goal, help you plan new, exciting schemes of work, raise standards, ensure that you are on course and up-to-date, familiarise yourself with new assessment practice and acquire valuable tips and strategies on creating more dynamic, engaged pupils who are more motivated and in control of their own learning.

This course is for:

• Secondary Teachers of Art and Design
• Heads of Art and Design and curriculum leaders

What will the course enable me to do?

• Plan inclusive lessons that excite and stimulate every student.
• Develop practical strategies for improving GCSE grades for every cohort.
• Learn content-driven art techniques using metacognition and independent learning strategies in a scaffolded framework.
• Get a clear picture of what OFSTED say makes for outstanding teaching & learning in art.
• Acquire classroom-based, manageable assessment techniques that give pupils a clear understanding of how they might progress and improve.
• Improve annotation and artist links to make achieving these vital assessment objectives much more enjoyable.
• Learn how to meet the needs of all learners through effective differentiation.

Presenter Profile

Paul Carney was a successful Head of Art in a Specialist Arts School for many years. He is an Advanced Skills Teacher and board member for the NSEAD on CPD and a practising artist. Paul is an experienced art consultant who has worked in schools nationally and internationally. He worked on the Expert Advisory Group that wrote the new NSEAD art and design competencies, and his website - http://www.paulcarneyarts.com/ - creates some of the most vibrant art resources on the internet.

Feedback from teachers on Paul's course

An excellent course – l'm looking forward to making some radical changes!
Insightful and inspiring – a really useful and entertaining day!
This is a very practical and informative course with lots of examples which I will definitely use. Paul is very knowledgeable.
Instructive, inspiring and delivered with humour.
This is an extremely useful and timely course - I have many ideas to share with my department.

Cost: £145 per delegate which includes lunch and resources; £199 for 2 teachers from the same school.