Group Teacher CPD Sessions
Artworks specialises in delivering CPD sessions tailored to the individual needs of your school, college or organisation. We work with specialist and non-specialist teaching staff to increase their skills and confidence to teach art.
Every session is artist-led and focused on developing practical skills while also providing a space for teachers to explore and enhance their own creativity.
All sessions typically include ideas about how to lead students in new activities, ways to integrate art into wider topics, tips on progression of skills and links to relevant artists and makers for students to study.
We offer a range of CPD sessions to inspire you with new ideas and techniques to enrich a creative curriculum. We are happy to discuss content and tailor a session to meet your needs.
Our Artist Educator will demonstrate a range of techniques and activities that your staff can join in with, showing you how to get the most from materials that you already have in school.
If you are an individual teacher looking for training, our art CPD courses may be what you are looking for.
Practical Information
Location: We can deliver in schools wither close to us in Yorkshire or nationwide, as well as at our premises in Halifax or online via Zoom.
Resources: Materials can either be provided by your school or by Artworks. For online sessions, a materials list will be sent to you before the session, typically using materials found in a general school art cupboard.
Cost:
1.5 hour session: from £250 via Zoom / from £270 in Artworks / from £290 in school
2 hour session: from £300 via Zoom / from £320 at Artworks / from £340 in school
3 hour session: from £400 via Zoom / from £420 at Artworks / from £440 in school
Full day session: from £520 at Artworks / from £540 in school
Sessions can cover a broad range of media and techniques, including:
• Drawing and Wellbeing • Exploring Sculpture • Relief Sculpture • Collage Techniques • Accessible Ceramics •
• Experimenting with Textiles • Exploring Art and DT • Experimental Drawing • Formal Elements of Art •
Photography Beyond the Darkroom
This session is designed to inspire you to think of innovative ways to teach photography within the limitations of a classroom. As well as thinking about accessible digital skills, we’ll explore analogue processes such as cyanotypes.
Developing Drawing Skills
This session is designed to give you practical ideas and techniques to help develop your students’ drawing skills in a range of media. We will look at how to adjust activities to help ensure progression of skills throughout your school.
Printmaking Techniques
Printmaking is a core technique that students of all ages can engage with. Our tutors can guide your staff through a large variety of techniques, including monoprinting, linocuts, collagraphs and screen printing.
Demystifying Abstract Art
This enjoyable and useful session develops teachers’ engagement with art and personal wellbeing. Abstract art is one of the most accessible ways to engage with art. We’ll explore different ways to engage students with abstract art.
Get in Touch
All of our sessions are tailored to the individual needs of your school, which means that we can devise a session specifically to fit with your goals and curriculum. If you don’t see what you are looking for above then please get in touch using the form below or by emailing Jules@theartworks.org.uk.