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Student Cortex TES Promo Video Why I Built The Student Cortex In every lesson, teachers register dozens of moments that matter. As teachers we notice who is engaging, who is stretching themselves, and who is quietly focussing beyond the more confident voices in the room. These moments shape the relationships at the very core of teaching. The challenge is not recognising them; it’s keeping track of them. With twenty or thirty students in a lesson, observations accumulate quick

Double exposure is a photography technique that merges two images into one, creating captivating and surreal compositions. Although historically this was done using negatives in the darkroom, it's aesthetic can be reproduced in the art classroom using Adobe photoshop, or more accessibly Pixlr Editor. It’s a perfect blend of art and technology that sparks creativity, making it an ideal project for students in Years 9–11. This lesson plan will show how you can introduce your s

Pictograms for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic, designed by Katsumi Masaru. The Olympic Games exemplify the necessity of graphic communication...

As an art teacher I am always looking for different ways to creatively interact with different cultures. I have witnessed this being done well, where at one school they would engage with culture through artists and informed processes, but I have also witnessed this being done less well, with an encouragement to create tokenistic images inspired by cultures. Engaging in art through proverbs is an interesting way to engage with a culture that allows us to recognise our similari

Surreal Collages area a fantastic way to challenge students to think using their wildest creative capacities. I've led successful lessons with year 7s and 8s, which I will detail below, but I will also here explore how I can develop its theories and concepts to challenge students in KS4/5. Years 7 & 8 Zoom in on an image until it looks mundane and ask students to consider "What will we see when we zoom out?" This activity is less of a cognitive process and rather more about i

Introduction Whoever said art comes from pain might have predicted a design term like “brutalism.” While the name may not sound like...