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Raising Attainment Context and critical research skills

24 February 2017 at 10.30–17.00
Participants at Tate Summer School 2016

Tate Summer School 2016

Image Seraphine Neville © Tate

A new series of one-day professional development workshops by University of the Arts London and Tate

Develop your students’ contextual and critical research skills through working with art,  artists and ideas in the exciting new Tate Modern. 

Explore a diverse, innovative and inventive range of creative approaches, designed to support your students’ progression, at this one-day CPD event from UAL and Tate. 

Working with artist and Fine Art Programme Leader at Central Saint Martins, Alex Schady and Associate Dean of Camberwell College of Arts, Amanda Jenkins, the course will promote a dialogue between art practice and teaching. 

Participants will explore Tate’s renowned collection through a number of practical activities. The morning will instil the value of practice-based enquiry - entertaining the possibilities of not-knowing, encountering the unexpected, testing, failing and finding out - as a strategy for supporting the development of ideas and a meaningful learning experience for students. 

Inspired by time spent exploring the collection, the group will come together to discuss the possibilities presented by using the gallery as an alternative learning environment, with a focus on exam assessment processes. 

Teachers will be encouraged to reflect on their own learning and critically consider how they support and measure the success of their students’ learning. 

The ideas, thinking and activities from the day will be collated into a digital resource for participants to use, draw upon and develop back in the classroom. 

  • Make the most of the gallery as an alternative learning environment to meet specific assessment requirements
  • Insight into how specific assessment requirements around the development of students’ critical research skills can be met
  • Ways to apply the exploration of artworks and artist practice within the gallery to support student learning
  • Strategies to improve student engagement by embracing the unexpected, experimentation and discovery
  • How to reflect on your own learning, apply your findings in your teaching, and measure impact

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My expectations were exceeded with practical, challenging activities

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The day re-animated my own ideas of art and teaching practice

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Raising Attainment gives context and critical research skills

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