TAS Wessex sponsors Winter CPD Conference

The Winter Conference this year is a valuable opportunity to spend the whole day working with

Textile Artist, Vivienne Beaumont https://www.viviennebeaumont.net/

‘I originally studied Fine Art and have been an art teacher for many years. In 1995, with a move to Shropshire, I found Westhope College, where I was able to do City and Guilds textile courses. I was awarded a medal of excellence from City and Guilds. Wanting a change of life style and to do my own art work, I retired from teaching at Shrewsbury High School to do an MA at Hereford College of Art. I really enjoyed doing the MA, it helped me to better understand my motivations and to establish my artistic identity’.

Transferring images onto cloth using mono-printing for stitch.

The course

 Transferring images onto cloth using mono-printing for stitch.

The course is designed to:

• Enable Teachers to make exemplar materials suitable for use with fine art and textiles.

• Enable teachers to create exemplar materials in textiles to inspire individualised learning.

• Give teachers the confidence to discuss a range of contemporary arts and crafts, jobs, and degree courses.

They will learn skills that increase pupil understanding of the art world. These can be used with all Key stages through differentiation.

• Create opportunities to address literacy.

• Provide ideas that demonstrate progress.

• Demonstrate differentiated target setting.

• Enable teachers to use open questioning more confidently.

• Gain a greater insight into historical and contemporary arts, crafts and design and their use within the curriculum.

• Extend subject skills and knowledge base.

• Allow teachers to share good practice leading to more effective art teaching.

• There will be the chance to speak to Heads of Art and Art Teachers from other Centres.

Designed for: Heads of Art, Art Teachers in Special, Middle and Secondary Schools.

 Course Organisers: Mandy Mills, Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) for Art and Design in Wiltshire, Specialist Leader for Education (SLE) and private tutor.

Course Outcomes:

• All outcomes can be shared throughout the group using photography and the creation of resources that can inspire further exploration.
• Individual outcomes can be used as classroom resources.
• The breadth of tasks available for study will provide teachers with a wide range of ideas for project work, each with its own contextual references and exemplars.
• Teachers will learn about a range of useful strategies to make their teaching more effective with possible outcomes developed from the understanding of concepts and formal qualities.
• Teachers will receive a selection of samples from Specialist Crafts/Dryad.
• Teachers will have the opportunity to develop new skills.
• Teachers will have the opportunity to take notes and develop confidence when discussing historical and critical examples of arts and provide inspiration for individualised learning.
• Teachers will have an opportunity to discuss a range of issues relevant to art teaching.
• Students’ will learn more independently, confidently and securely.