Build Confidence and Independence in Art & Design
Scaffolds That Can Gradually Be Removed is a free classroom resource designed to support GCSE and A Level Art & Design students while helping them become increasingly independent. It provides adaptable structures for annotation, research, idea generation, experimentation and refinement, together with practical tools for planning how support can be reduced over time.
Free for classroom and educational use. Please retain the copyright notice included in each file.
What is Included?
This resource provides practical support structures that can be adapted to the student’s current needs and reduced as confidence grows. Teachers can use the scaffolds during annotation, artist research, idea development, experimentation and refinement without turning them into permanent restrictions.
The resource includes:
How to Use Scaffolds That Can Gradually Be Removed
Select the smallest amount of support that enables the student to begin and make purposeful progress. Review the scaffold regularly, removing prompts, choices or structures in manageable stages as the student demonstrates greater confidence and independence.
Suitable for GCSE and A Level Art & Design
The scaffolds can support Fine Art, Photography and Graphic Communication students across different examination boards. Teachers can adapt the editable Word version to suit particular projects, individual starting points and planned stages for developing independence.
Classroom Use and Copyright
This resource may be printed, edited and used with students within your own school, college or educational setting. It must not be sold, repackaged, uploaded to another website, shared publicly or distributed commercially. Copyright remains with Portfolio to A Star and Ian Bradbury.