During her time at the NCAD , Karla-Louise completed her first independent school placement in Ardgillan Community College lasting ten weeks. Throughout these placements, she taught a range of students from 1st, 2nd, 3rd,Transition Year (TY), 5th and 6th years.
Ardgillan Community College
Ardgillan Community College promotes a happy and caring community where students are encouraged and supported to reach their full potential. The ethos of the college is based on respect, tolerance and understanding while appreciating the diversity of our changing world.
Ardgillan College's motto is ‘Mol an Óige agus Tiocfaidh Sí’ (Praise the young and they will flourish).
Album Cover Design Unit of Learning
Aim:
Through mixed media and observational drawings the students will design and create a CD cover using themes taken from CBA 1 - Crumple, Hometown and mirror image to develop on their graphic design skills with a special focus put on the art elements and design principles of emphasis, shape, colour, line and harmony
Theme:
Multi theme Classroom Based Assessment 1 themes- Mirror image, hometown and Crumple
Learning Outcomes:
3.2 Use critical and visual language to explain their own designs and those of others
2.4 Show they can use their drawings to observe, record and analyse
1.7 Examine the method of a number of artists and the artwork they created
3.6 Design a final work based on their drawings
3.11 Examine their own and other’s design work through the use of art elements and design principles
3.14 Utilise media in their own design work based on a design brief
Learning Intentions:
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(Cognitive) Realise artists/designers use typography as an artform
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(Psychomotor) Transfer their altered type to their finished CD Cover by exploring the process of transferring through tracing paper
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(Afflective) Evaluate their work based on the success criteria to self-assess
Students final piece inpisred by crumple
Typography visual aids for students
Composition visual aid for students while working through still life drawing
Students final piece inpisred by crumple
Kerbstone visual aid made from clay incorporating key geometric designs
Student work of a drawn Lunula labelled with key metal techniques
Student worksheet based on Derrinboy armbands
Kerbstone visual aid made from clay incorporating key geometric designs
Pre-Christian Ireland Visual Studies Unit of Learning
Aim:
Aim of this unit of learning is for students to determine the level of innovation of the pre-christian people, compare artefacts and structures and examine key monuments, and developments of the pre-christian period in Ireland, with a key focus on the Visual Studies Framework elements.
Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Use critical and visual language to describe an artwork
1.3 Produce an annotated visual record of their enquiry
2.2 Translate their experience of visual studies into their practical work
3.3 Recognise the artistic thinking and elements in their own work and that of others
Learning Intentions:
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(Cognitive) - Distinguish the different time periods within the stone age based on context of that period - palaeolithic, mesolithic, neolithic
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(Psychomotor) - Construct a pinch pot similar to those used in the mesolithic time
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(Affective) - Propose the consequences of cultural and social developments in the stone age