
Team Teaching
During the second year of the Fine Art and Education BA at NCAD, Karla-Louise participated in a team teaching placement at St.Joseph's Secondary School, Rush. This experience involved collaboratively planning and delivering lessons, allowing her to work alongside other educators to explore various artistic techniques and foster creativity in students.
St.Joseph's Secondary School,Rush
St.Joseph's secondary school aims to provide a scaring environment which promotes effort, achievement and the enjoyment of learning, where students develop self esteem, responsibility and self management skills in an atmosphere of respect and mutual support, inspired by our Catholic tradition.

Unit of Learning

Blind Texture Experiments

Student final work

Student Final Work

Blind Texture Experiments
Theme:
Sustainable Development Goals - Number 3: Health and Well being
Aim:
To experiment with clay, by designing and constructing a pinch pot inspired by fruit and vegetables with a key focus on the art elements and design principles of texture and form to developing understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals specifically health and well being by encouraging and implementing the fun in healthy eating.
Learning Outcomes:
Taken from the Junior Cycle Visual Art Specification
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2.3 reflect on their own, or another’s craft work through the use of critical and visual language
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3.5 experiment with design ideas through research and analytical drawings
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1.7 examine the method of a number of artists and the artwork they created
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2.10 describe art elements and design principles as they are used across a number of different crafts

Students final work inspired by a pineapple

Student activity allowing students to explore the texture of fruit and vegetables without seeing

Students first time creating a pinch pot

Students final work inspired by a pineapple