Give your pupils a concept or theme-based stimulus or design brief.

Encourage them to:

• research other practitioners’ work;
• evaluate and critically appraise their work; 
• explore the context in which the work was produced;
• apply and use the language of Art and Design, the visual elements;
• consider the needs of the consumer, audience or patron;
• develop their visual responses;
• experiment with and develop skills in a particular medium or range of media;
• review and evaluate their progress; and
• create an outcome. 

Give your pupils live visual stimuli such as objects, people, environments or landscape.

Encourage them to:

• respond through recording, mark making and drawing in a range of media;
• explore the visual elements;
• learn about the approaches of other artists or practitioners;
• consider the technical requirements of a genre such as cityscapes or landscapes – perspective, portraits, figures or still life – proportion or composition;
• experiment and develop skills in applying the visual elements; and
• experiment with and develop skills in a particular medium or range of media.

Introduce your pupils to a discipline or medium.

Encourage them to:

• explore and experiment with different techniques;
• explore how other practitioners have used the medium;
• combine and refine visual elements in an experimental way; and
• generate ideas for an outcome.

Introduce your pupils to a practitioner, work, culture or movement in Art and Design through a live visit, workshop or classroom presentation.

Encourage them to:

• discuss, evaluate and understand the context, purpose, technical and visual elements of the work;
• respond by exploring any of the above; and
• develop their own ideas and imaginative directions and solutions.