Cfe – UWS BA ePDPs

Voice management

As teachers our voice is our main teaching tool. It’s how we communicate with children throughout the day. It’s how we set rules and manage behave. Our tone and volume can tell children a lot about the message we are trying to portray (GRAD, 2017). It is therefore important that we understand how to take […]

Print in the making

The arts can be integrated into multiple areas of the curriculum and this was made evident during the seminars I attended on the 3rd of October 2017. The visual arts section focused on the painting; Windows in the West (1993) by Avril Paton. This painting was created using watercolours and paper. Paton (2017) took inspiration from a personal memory […]

Perfection

My memories of painting in my primary setting is sitting beside a friend and wishing my painting looked as good as theirs. As children grow they become more self-consious and concerned that their creation is accurate enough (McAuliffe, 2007) or that it’s not “perfect”. This word “perfect” is a word that I hate to hear […]