Art & Design.

Become an Art Teacher.

If you have a degree in Art & Design and a passion to inspire others, then you may just be the person we are looking for!

You might be fresh out of University, taken a break from or are currently in the Creative industries.

Our vision for you is to become an inspirational teacher, skill rich and fully equipped to inspire today’s young people, offering them compelling learning opportunities. We aim to support you to become confident in sharing a deep appreciation for the importance of visual literacy and communication, allowing learners to become individuals. We encourage creative risk-taking, allow failure as part of the learning process and in doing so, educate you to be innovative, inquisitive and entrepreneurial practitioners in an ever-changing world of career prospects.

If not only you have a love for the practical element, but also wish to be part of sharing key essentials within a dynamic, multifaceted curriculum area by exploring:

Its Value

With respect and its place in society and your future

How to Appreciate

Think, question, to take pride in your work and treat each other’s with kindness and integrity

How to Express Yourself

Using creative visual methods to experiment and take risks demonstrating perseverance

Through collaborative team-working and sharing of ideas, research and experiences, you, as an artist-educator, will be encouraged to develop your ideas and flourish as a practitioner; we hope you will join us in sharing this vision of what is an amazing and rewarding career!

Subject Pedagogy Tutor.

Donna Evans Art Subject Leader

Subject Pedagogy Tutor.

Donna has been a specialist Art and Design Teacher for 30 years and runs a highly successful Art and Design Department. She has a broad skill set across a variety of Art and Design disciplines and her departmental practice has been showcased by National and Regional bodies. Donna has worked with ITT for 25 years and with various training model: PGCE, GTP to SCITT and has provided INSET training for different universities on teaching and learning and subject specific workshops.
Donna has been a specialist Art and Design Teacher for 30 years and runs a highly successful Art and Design Department. She has a broad skill set across a variety of Art and Design disciplines and her departmental practice has been showcased by National and Regional bodies.

Donna has worked with ITT for 25 years and with various training model: PGCE, GTP to SCITT and has provided INSET training for different universities on teaching and learning and subject specific workshops.

Get in touch with us to find out more about our programme and the application process.

Programme Specific Elements.

Developing your teaching pedagogy is essential, but within the Art and Design subject sessions, we show you how this can be applied to the context of Art and Design teaching. The whole essence of the training sessions is to stretch your understanding and application of being the best classroom practitioner whilst alongside the theatrical learning, it is balanced with practical workshops and offering substantial support for your own teaching in placement schools.

Tailored to your skills audit at the beginning of the course, you can be expected to undertake workshops, including, to name but a few:

The Power of Drawing

Outstanding Teaching in Art & Design

Using Contemporary Artists in the Secondary Curriculum

Space as a Teaching and Learning Medium

The subject development workshops will help shape your rationale for Art and Design teaching across different key stages. These sessions will allow you to develop your practical skills in key specialist areas such as printmaking, textiles, mixed media, 3-dimensional, fine art practice and contemporary crafts, architecture and fashion design. The sessions will also include the importance of modelling; we pride ourselves on the recruitment rate of past trainees, and an emphasis is placed, within the programme, on becoming job-ready, and support is provided to build successful interview technique and portfolios. Our working relationships with highly experienced mentors at partnership schools are excellent. Subject mentors are dedicated, enthusiastic practitioners, and they are responsible for your development whilst on your placements.

By the end of the programme, you will be equipped to teach pupils in the 11-16 years range, and you will also have experience in planning, teaching and standardisation of different post 16 courses.

Do you have what it takes to teach?

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