I take a rather holistic approach. My lessons are aimed at people keen to learn more about the arts, particularly illustration.

I have been practicing teaching illustration for one academic year now where I work on placement. I enjoy spreading my knowledge and passion for illustration among the students and providing them with the correct learning support to help them progress along their learner journey. I speak motivationally about illustration in order to inspire the students and I'm always looking to improve how I do so using the plan,do, check act method. This is important and so is teaching with visual aids. Marketing illustration is designed to sell things to make things more memorable and sell things to us and I believe that students are customers and that we should be really selling content to them. It’s important that they remember content as retention leads to achievement. Being an illustrator has helped me with my teaching practice because illustration is visual communication. It’s great at explaining and condensing even abstract or wordy concepts into something more tangible which is great for students with SEN. A picture paints a thousand words and this is similar to how actions can speak louder than words when managing the classroom environment because even a rigorously planned lesson can fall flat in a poorly managed learning environment. I believe in carol Dweck's theory of keeping a growth mindset and because illustration is creative problem solving it has encouraged me to think outside the box to solve problems in the classroom too as I often have to use my level head to mediate conflict or come up with new and interesting ways to resolve learned helplessness.