Professional Development
Artist Teacher Scheme
OXFORDSHIRE and the South Midlands
Modern Art Oxford
Oxford Brookes University
ARTIST TEACHER POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
ENTRY LEVEL
MODULE 1: Integrating contemporary practice into the classroom
(M level credits: 20)
Three days during the week of August 2010 tbc
This three-day exploratory course introduces participants to ways of extending practical and theoretical visual art subject knowledge focusing on
contemporary practice. Artist teachers will spend an initial three days connecting education, galleries, research and practical application at Modern Art
Oxford and Oxford Brookes University; this will coincide with the Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place, paintings 2001-2010 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford.
Links will be made to contemporary art and education research, teaching and learning through visual media and reflection on own practices within the classroom.
Two whole-day critically reflective feedback sessions: provisionally November 2010 and January 2011 (dates to be confirmed).
Module fee: £165
Number of places: 20
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
MODULE 2: Developing Artistic Practice (M level credits: 40)
Face to face tutorials, seminars and workshops take place as follows: February half term, ( 3 dates tbc), one Saturday in March, one in May and one in June/July (dates tbc) and one day end of August 2011.
Module 2 develops teachers as skilled and reflective artist practitioners and is designed to take participants back into the art studio to extend
their own knowledge, skills and understanding of contemporary art practice through a personal practical investigation. Participants will have
access to workshops to extend their subject knowledge as well as contemporary practice at Modern Art Oxford, working to a deadline to develop a
portfolio of practical artwork culminating in a final presentation of reflections on the impact of the course to a panel.
Module fee: £330
Number of places: 20
Teachers who successfully complete this programme will be eligible for the Oxford Brookes University Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Practice in Education. Completing the course can be used as evidence of continuing professional development activity in threshold claims, TLA applications, performance management interviews, AST applications etc. This programme is worth 60 credits at Masters level, which can count as credit for participants who wish to go on and study for a postgraduate diploma or MA.
Course fees for the Artist Teacher Postgraduate Certificate in Continuing Professional Practice are generously subsidised by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) as part of their Postgraduate Professional development fund and are available to teachers with Qualified Teacher Status working in maintained schools in England.
For further information go to:-
www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/education/frameworkcpd.html
To enrol please contact:-
Rachel Payne, Course Leader
T: 01865 488339
E: rpayne@brookes.ac.uk
For an application form or administrative enquiries contact:-
T: 01865 488577
E: cpdadmin@brookes.ac.uk
You can find out more about other courses and events for teachers at
Modern Art Oxford
and Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University
