| Key word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Skill share | Handing something you can do to somebody else, so they can do it. |
| Task analysis | Breaking a skill into steps in the right order. |
| The ten-minute rule | A teachable skill produces a visible result in about ten minutes. |
| The fault to watch for | The mistake your learner is most likely to make. |
| Skill Deck | The printed set of skills taught this year, to choose from. |
| Part D | Bronze: sharing your arts skills with others. |
Enquiry: What can I do well enough to teach someone else — and how would I teach it?
Award part: Bronze Part D scope
Diagnostic: β Too big — “I’ll teach them to make art” · β Too small — “I’ll show them the glue stick” · β Right — one skill, a visible result, about ten minutes
Fix: Pick the FAULT you can spot fastest. Teaching someone to SEE a bleeding edge is worth more than teaching them to hold a sponge — and it cannot be faked.
1. Last lesson (Recall) What makes five prints a set?
2. Last week (Vocab) What is the stop line?
3. Foundational (Recall) Name a fault you can now diagnose on sight.
4. Greater depth (Think) Why does teaching a FAULT beat teaching a technique?
Seven weeks ago you did not know that a wet sponge bleeds under a stencil. Now you spot it across a room. That is the thing worth teaching.
The squeeze test TEACHABLE. Ten seconds to show, instantly visible when it goes wrong, and it fixes the commonest fault. The strongest choice in the room.
Taping to the paper TEACHABLE. One move, obvious result, and the drift disappears. Easy to demonstrate, easy to check.
Crayon on its side TEACHABLE. Two minutes, and the difference between a ghost and a clear rubbing.
Cutting a bridge TEACHABLE, HARDER. Needs a blade, so it needs supervision β pick it only if you can be supervised throughout.
“How to make art” TOO BIG. Not a skill. Nobody could follow it, and nothing gets made in ten minutes.
Opening a glue stick TOO SMALL. Nothing visible results, so there is nothing for your learner to have made.
My skill is ____________. I am teaching ____________.
Step 1 ____________. Step 2 ____________. Step 3 ____________.
The fault my learner will make is ____________.
They will spot it because ____________.
What could go wrong on the day: ____________. What I will do: ____________.
I am teaching a fault rather than a technique because ____________.
Skill · learner · three steps
My skill:
Who I am teaching:
Steps 1, 2, 3:
Steps, tested
My three steps after reading them aloud:
The step I rewrote, and why:
Plan + risks
What could go wrong, and my response:
The piece I will teach from:
1) Why three steps and not nine?
2) Name the fault your learner will most likely make.
3) What makes a skill the right size?
Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.
| Space | The Skill Deck means nobody has to invent a skill from memory β choosing from the deck is a real choice. |
| Voice | You choose your skill and your learner. Neither is allocated to you. |
| Audience | Your three steps get read to a real person this lesson, and rewritten where they stalled. |
| Influence | The skills chosen most often decide which stations run in Spring 1 β your plan builds next termβs room. |
Closing the loop: out loud, as a class, is enough here. Any inclusion counts — a nod, a word, a pointed finger. If a pupil wants theirs written down, an adult scribes it in their words. Pass is always allowed.
| Authorship — what I selected, made, directed or decided: | Exact support given — prepared / modelled / prompted / scribed: |
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