AccessArt runs an ongoing programme of Zoom CPD to help support educators develop their understanding of the visual arts.
The majority of our CPD is offered free of charge to AccessArt members, and with the exception of the collaborative CPD, most of our zoom sessions are recorded and made available as a library resource to members.
Spring Term 2025
This Spring Term, we’re excited to create a Zoom offer which celebrates all the AccessArt community, making sure everyone feels included, regardless of the educational setting you work in.
We welcome classroom teachers, home educators, artist educators, facilitators in care homes and hospitals, and a whole wealth of other educators to our website and programme. Join our supportive network as we inspire and enable visual arts education for learners in all settings.
Contact Rachel@accessart.org.uk
February 2025
Making the Key Stage 3 Curriculum Engaging and Relevant for all Learners
The Tiny Art School Movement: Spotlight
March 2025
Panel Event: Spaces and Skills to Nurture Creative Thought & Action
CPD EVENTS IN FEBRUARY
Making the Key Stage 3 Curriculum Engaging and Relevant for all Learners
Monday 3rd February
5.00pm-7.00pm
£35 for Non-Members / £25 for AccessArt Members and Trainee Teachers
How can we create a curriculum that is engaging and relevant to all learners in KS3?
How can this help to increase the number of learners who choose to take art as an option subject in KS4?
In this session run by Susan Coles, we will explore how skills and creativity can be taught together in KS3 to foster exploration, cultural diversity, critical analysis and personal expression. Combining traditional techniques with digital media we ask how we can celebrate these skills, so learners feel encouraged to solve real-world problems through art.
The Tiny Art School Movement: Spotlight
Wednesday 12th February
11.00am-12.00pm
Free for AccessArt Members
AccessArt is creating a body of work to explore, celebrate and promote the notion of “Tiny Art Schools” across the UK. Tapping into existing practice and innovation, we’ll be sharing how artist educators are working with their audiences, using community centres, village halls, and private studio spaces as art education labs to build creative and economic communities of all sizes.
At this online event, AccessArt will talk more about the importance of artist educators stepping forward to inspire communities. We’ll be hearing from two different Tiny Art Schools as they share their inclusive and diverse offer to the art education community and their journey towards achieving this.
CPD EVENTS IN MARCH
Panel Event: Spaces and Skills to Nurture Creative Thought & Action
Wednesday 19th March
4.00pm-5.00pm
Free for AccessArt Members
The Work Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Survey: Insights Report (2023) highlighted creative thinking as one of the most important skills for workers.
In this online session, we’ll be joined by expert panelists from settings as diverse as EYFS through to FE, to discuss how we can develop approaches to creative thought and action through art. We’ll also look at the things which hinder creativity, and discuss how, as teachers, we can become creative facilitators.
This session is suitable for educators working in all settings, including EYFS, Primary and Secondary Schools, Sixth Form Colleges, Further and Higher Education, and Home Education.