Knowledge categories in art and design
Gary has been busy with our new Curriculum Companion for Art and Design. In a previous post entitled The problem with knowledge ‘organisers’, I wrote about the importance of presenting new information to students in categories to help them relate that new information to previous knowledge and, in doing so, helping them to build a schema. In our latest creation, being printed as I write, we have used the following knowledge categories to help students build an art and design schema:
Here is how Gary has organised knowledge around the relevant categories in Key Stage 1:
Here is another topic, this time from Key Stage 2. Notice how the same knowledge categories are used. Constant referencing back to knowledge students have in this category is vital in schema building.
Here is one more, again from Key Stage 2:
Each time a new topic is started, teachers should ask students to retrieve from memory the knowledge they have already have. This helps them to form a strong subject schema.
For more information on this and other Curriculum Companions see here.