Art Exam Countdowns - made for GCSE, adaptable to any Exam board

Art & Design GCSE teachers will find these countdown documents VERY useful. I have found that using them has boosted our grades last year to 16% above National Average - and I work in a deprived Academy!

Each one, for each of the 4 assessment objectives, charts the activities pupils can follow, as they plan for their final or mock exams. They could also be adapted for use with coursework projects.

The issue many art teachers have [myself included!!] is OBLIGING pupils to make work, even if they are “stuck” for ideas. These sheets minimise that possibility. They make pupils create outcomes, EVERY lesson. This generates work that is then presented for each Assessment Objective.

I have found it really focuses and motivates the pupils, if they have to mount up work for each AO on a display sheet.

Each of these countdowns:

• has 3 tiers of difficulty for each task set - allowing you / your pupil to differentiate
• can be adapted to suit your calendar - just change the dates, and number of 3 tiers lessons you need in each week
• can be printed off individually, or merged into one document, for display
• can be shared with parents/carers - electronically if you wish - so its easy for them too to know, what their children should be working on.

I have included them in different formats;

• in word - so you can just print them off; trim off my own lesson dates or have your pupils alter them?
• in excel - so can adapt them to suit your own dates, and insert / delete tasks
• in excel - an overview of all 4 AO’s - that you can again adapt if you wish, then clip into your planner

So; no more blank pieces of paper, and no more blank stares from stressed out pupils, stuck for ideas! Lesson by lesson, your exam work is produced…

Do try these yourself, and let me know how you get on :-)