How are you creating a more resilient atmosphere for students who prepare for AS & A level Art & Design.
Resilience and self control -AS & A level Art class at Cambridge International School, Dubai
Great opportunity to attend an online interactive workshop with Melanie Stewart. Using evidence-based research we reflected critically on the difference between resilience and self-control; whether the level of resilience is a cause or an effect as you go higher in education and importance of the level of a mother’s education in the upbringing of a child. The discussion and workshop made me think about how Art lessons at especially AS & A level contribute to building this quality in students as life-long learners. A lot of emphasis is given to this through continuous encouragement and feedback, going back and forth as they go forward to, they create beautiful portfolios over the course of the year they continue to work, day in and day out producing one work after the other and sometimes losing sight and clarity of one over the other. While students understand over a period of time that mistakes will happen. Staying focused, risk taking, and reflection are an essential part of this making process.