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The Art Teacher Residential

We invite you to experience what one art teacher described as “the best CPD that I have had in 27 years of teaching”.

Our residential programme runs every year across three days in early July at the University of Leeds. It is a creatively driven, carefully curated programme of workshops and activities designed to engage the talents and experiences of art and art history teachers.

The programme is designed and delivered by academics (Abigail Harrison Moore), art technicians (from the School of Fine Art), education consultants (Susan Coles, Anne-Louise Quinton), teachers (Sarah Philips, Paul Raymond, Hannah Vallance), colleagues from the Paul Mellon Centre and our partner arts organisations (for example we have worked with the Arts Council Collection, Chatsworth House Trust, Yorkshire Sculpture International, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

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Over three days you will benefit from all of the facilities that Leeds campus has to offer, including free accommodation, refectory meals, access to the university’s libraries and galleries, visits to our partner galleries, such as Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute, and access to the technical workshops, seminar rooms and materials in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies. This will include a formal three-course meal on the final night of the programme. As well as an opportunity to learn and connect, this programme is a moment to let us take care of you at the end of an exhausting school year.

Our residential programme invites you to:

  • engage with pro-active ways to develop your teaching and artistic practice
  • build networks, and share ideas and experiences with peers
  • improve delivery and results on the written element of the Art A Level
  • develop new ideas for planning
  • integrate ideas from art by past and contemporary artists into art lessons with confidence

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To date over 200 teachers from across the UK have participated in our residential programme.

Find out how you can apply for our next residential here.

How to apply

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From the residential programme to the PGCert

Hear from a member of our community, Anna Wallace, about how the residential programme transformed her thinking and led her to pursue our Postgraduate Certificate.

I remember on day 2 of the residential, we were challenged to consider what an art-based curriculum would look like? Anne-Louise and Abigail had sparked the call to Art activism on the first day and everyone in the room was already buzzing with ideas.

Read the story

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