POWER DRAWING
The Power Drawing professional development programme includes:
Drawing Across the Curriculum
Training Tutors: Supporting Professional Colleagues
Big Draw Courses
Heritage, built environment and other courses
Lectures and seminars in initial teacher education
Conference presentations or breakout workshops
Drawing Across the Curriculum
Work-based professional development for teachers and educators working directly with pupils or students in formal or informal education.
A full day course includes illustrated examples, practical drawing activities, discussion, planning and review. Optional twilight follow-up sessions
help to embed change, promoting action, reflection and evaluation.
Drawing Across the Curriculum can be arranged as a whole-school inset for primary or secondary educators, as LEA-supported inset, or as a course for
cultural educators or a mixed group.
Training Tutors: Supporting Professional Colleagues
For art advisers, advanced skills teachers, secondary heads of art and design, and primary art and design coordinators. A one-day course to learn
strategies and techniques for supporting the development of drawing across the curriculum, as well as within the art and design curriculum.
The educational thinking that underpins drawing is highlighted. Participants cascade learning to others through their own practice.
Training Tutors can be arranged at the request of art advisers or senior teachers for colleagues across a local authority or neighbouring authorities.
Big Draw Courses
Inspirational ideas, hands on activities and practical tips for running a successful event, whether in a village school or national museum. Holding a Big Draw
in a school can involve the entire school community and also be a catalyst for new directions. In a cultural setting The Big Draw can attract new audiences and
offer engagement with collections or sites in a fresh, lively and purposeful way.
Big Draw courses can be arranged for groups of any size. Organisers will probably find that it is most cost-effective to have 25 or more participants.
Heritage, built environment and other courses
Power Drawing courses can be arranged on other topics – for example drawing to support education or public programmes at heritage sites or within built
environment education. See how to arrange a course for further information.
Lectures and seminars in initial teacher education
encourage student teachers to make greater use of drawing as a medium for learning.
Conference presentations or breakout workshops
provide opportunities to make connections between theory and practice.
Power Drawing publications reinforce learning and provide a reference for future work.