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I teach autistic teenagers - looking for advice

HettieLleshi

Hi there, 

So i teach in a specialist autism base in which our secondary students do not mix with main school. 

The area I am looking into at the moment is offering Art GCSE - of which we have some excitement and interest. 

Generally any tips or advice in delivering art to autistic teens, especially in regards to the following - 

- Researching (we have students who love art but refuse and will not research even with something they are interested in) THIS IS THE BIGGEST THING I NEED HELP WITH Slight smile

- Imagination (some students are extremely imaginative whilst others need a bit more help) 

Any advice, or ideas would be great. 

I am myself autistic but thrived in art, I just want to provide my students with the best experience and support them in the best way possible!

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  • I did art at GCSE.

    Looking back, I wish I'd 'got' the art history aspect of it better.

    I ended up with a B. Lovely drawings. Struggled with paint a bit (the state schools paint was pretty rubbish at the time, to be fair to myself).

    In my 20s, I got into the art history side of things through Tim Marlow's 'Great Artists' program on Channel 5.

    If I could have gone back to my GCSEs and injected my new-found interest in art history back into GCSE, I would have done.

    At GCSE, the idea of art history wasn't really developed. A teacher sadly didn't have the same visual wonderment that a well-produced TV program could give. So, I guess that is why I fell into a love art history through a great TV program series rather than a teacher having to talk it through (without visual aids) within about 5-10 mins.


    That's a bit jumbled of an answer but maybe gives something else to latch onto ?

    Oh, and I consider myself bigender, if that helps at all. I aced maths and science all through school - but also liked to indulge myself in other subjects like art and history.

  • in reply to calmerchameleon

    I think as Peter says below, bringing out the finer points of structure, detail and form can be really engaging for us. With the art history and art analysis programs, it was great hearing about how pictures are composed, the different thoughts going on in the artist's head.

    Also, it's great to know what mistakes or changes in mind are made by the 'great artists'. We can be quite perfectionist sometimes, so hearing that an artist will change their mind after an initial working can be quite liberating.

    Composition, light and dark, choice of colour/vibrancy and explaining seemingly 'unusual choices' (the rose lying on the floor represents etc). All these little analytical aspects help set off a lot of interest in some of us.

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  • in reply to calmerchameleon

    I think as Peter says below, bringing out the finer points of structure, detail and form can be really engaging for us. With the art history and art analysis programs, it was great hearing about how pictures are composed, the different thoughts going on in the artist's head.

    Also, it's great to know what mistakes or changes in mind are made by the 'great artists'. We can be quite perfectionist sometimes, so hearing that an artist will change their mind after an initial working can be quite liberating.

    Composition, light and dark, choice of colour/vibrancy and explaining seemingly 'unusual choices' (the rose lying on the floor represents etc). All these little analytical aspects help set off a lot of interest in some of us.

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