Continued Professional Development
After the residential programme you will be invited to join our free online CPD workshops alongside the rest of our community
I love the cross curricular ethos and the spirit of comradery. The ideas were so brilliant- fresh and exciting. I cannot wait to take what I’ve learned back to my faculty. Thank you again- such a brilliant opportunity, I’m really really grateful.
Free subject-specific CPD sessions
We run three free subject-specific CPD sessions a year. They are developed and delivered by Anne-Louise Quinton, who designs them to speak to a current issue or concern in the classroom (e.g. protest, the environment, diversifying the curriculum). This way, your opportunities to learn, share, and connect with the wider Art Teachers Connect community, do not end with the residential programme.
The aim of these sessions is for you to leave our digital classroom with new ideas, resources and lessons starters. Anne-Louise takes particular care to introduce you to new artists, artforms, and ways of exploring art history, inviting you to diversify your teaching practice and confidently take new ideas into your classroom.
The ideas and resources from this and previous sessions are so rich with information and opportunity. I cannot tell you how rare this is in CPD. It is the best 2 hour CPD of the year. Most importantly it immediately translates to fabulous classroom practice and student creativity.
Bring a colleague
At least once a year we invite our art teachers to bring a friend from another subject area into our digital classroom, with the aim to show them that art and art history can also inform the way that they teach. So far we have been joined by colleagues from English, Geography and the Sciences.
I really like that there was a comparison between the GCSE specifications, and also surreptitiously there is a lot of cross-over with A Level Geography as we have to compare artistic sources (paintings, poems, songs) with cartographic or statistical sources and evaluate their usefulness in showing how places change… I will be using some of the paintings shown in the powerpoints as practice exam questions for my year 12s!
This CPD was ‘a tonic’. It highlighted the importance of what we do and supplied ideas and inspiration, supporting art teachers to provide meaningful and inspiring teaching!