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Have you ever wished you knew how to cut cardboard easily? As an art teacher, I’ve cut a heck of a lot of card over the years.  I wish I had known about this device sooner.  I first heard about it on Facebook where other art teachers were talking about how great it was.  Our […]

Group work is a vital tool that encourages the development of confidence, communication and collaboration. However, within Art & Design it can be challenging to manifest due to learners having individual projects or pieces. In this blog post, I will share some things that I have found worked well when implementing group work with my […]

Working with artists and practitioners is a highly desirable way to engage students in Art & Design and broadens their learning from inside of the classroom. This year, my students from Wolverhampton Grammar School have been working alongside Midlands-based photographer, Sarvjit Sra, to practice the art of storytelling through photography. Hearing his motivation and inspirations […]

Ronnie Houselander-Cook is an ECT art teacher here in the UK and responded to my call on social media for ECT’s to blog in return for a free subscription to The Arty Teacher.  An ECT teacher is an ‘Early Careers Teacher’ and a term used here in the UK. ECT art teachers have contacted me […]

In the States they are called ‘attention grabbers’, here in the UK it would be part of your behaviour management strategy, but whatever you call it, ways to get your students to be quiet are an essential part of your teacher tool kit. Here are some tried and tested strategies used by art teachers around […]

I’ve never seen an art teacher use Oreos in the art classroom before but when I saw art teacher Sandy Queen post the images below on my Facebook group Your Student’s Artwork, I had to find out more.  This task makes links to historical cameo carvings, reinforces what relief carving is and also involves creative […]