National Teaching Fellowship 2018 - Miss Beth Pickard

Description

Beth Pickard’s passion for working with children and young people with additional learning needs is fuelled by personal and professional experience, which continues to underpin and motivate her work: challenging the dominant medical model of disability.

After four years of part and full-time teaching, she is now teaching and challenging perspectives across a wide range of courses and disciplines. Becoming a Course Leader has been a vehicle for sharing her passion and worldview with others, whether staff or students, and of developing curricula which embed an affirmative approach to disability and the arts through mutually-informing community collaborations that set the foundations for extracurricular and sustainable, alumni partnership.