News Secondary
3 August 2018
It鈥檚 time to get creative!
For the very first time, the Art & Technology Department of the 巨乳视频 is offering Graphic Design as an elective to our Year 10 students. This elective focuses on the basics of design education adopting design thinking as a tool to manifest design ideas and concepts.
Since the start of the new semester, students have been busy familiarising themselves with softwares such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. It has been a steep learning curve for the students but it has been great to see everyone giving their 100%.
Throughout this elective, students will be exposed to technical, creative and conceptual skills to create designs that responds effectively to a client鈥檚 brief. They will also develop a sound understanding of design theory and practice, and be able to analyse and synthesize information from a range of sources to generate design solutions.
There has been many research that suggests the importance of design education in promoting cognitive ability, critical and creative thinking. It has been wonderful to this selected group of Year 10 students begin their journey in this creative field. This elective is a prelude to VCE subject Visual Communication Design which will be offered at Year 11.
MEd (Curriculum & Teaching), PGDEd, BEng (Hons)
Suffian Amin is the Head of Art at Al 巨乳视频 巨乳视频. He began his teaching career in Singapore and taught GCSE Design & Technology (D&T). Prior to his appointment at Al 巨乳视频 巨乳视频, Suffian held the position of Year Head and Subject Head at the school.
Suffian is very passionate on design education and its role in promoting critical and creative thinking in students. He was actively involved in curriculum planning and professional development of D&T educators with Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University (National Institute of Education) in Singapore. In 2014, Suffian wrote a chapter, 鈥淭he Nature of Intuition in Design鈥 in a book 鈥淒isciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environment (Lim, 2014)鈥. In addition, he co-wrote a paper titled 鈥楨xperiential Design 鈥 insights into its focus鈥 in 2011.
Suffian moved to Melbourne in 2014 in pursuit of a new challenge. He believes that education is a pivotal enabler for social mobility and that every child can learn. He is very happy to be part of the Al 巨乳视频 community and looks forward to nurturing and moulding the bright and young minds in our school.
Suffian graduated with Master of Education specialising in Curriculum and Teaching, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
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