Course description

Course overview and purpose:
This course is designed for teachers of all subjects who wish to bring creativity into their classroom practice and explore creative approaches to enrich learning.
Whether you’re new to creative methods or looking to deepen your practice, this course will equip you with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and renewed confidence to transform your classroom.
You’ll join colleagues from your own and other subject areas to discover practical strategies and fresh perspectives that can transform your teaching. Through hands-on sessions, you’ll experiment with a wide range of creative tools and collaborative approaches. Activities include using visual mapping to explain complex concepts, developing storytelling techniques to construct narratives in different subjects, and applying improvisation and drama-based exercises to encourage empathy and perspective-taking. Teachers will also engage in simple design challenges and prototyping tasks that promote problem-solving through making and experimentation, as well as practise collaborative planning to explore how creativity can enhance motivation, curiosity, and engagement in the classroom.
The course encourages the use of low-tech, accessible materials and flexible formats that can be easily adapted to different age groups and classroom settings.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a personal toolkit of adaptable techniques ready to use in your classroom. Unleash your creative potential: create, connect, and teach differently!

Learning outcomes:

• Apply creative strategies such as role-play, storytelling, and visual mapping within their subject teaching
• Design creative learning activities that connect concepts across different curriculum areas
• Solve teaching challenges using creativity-based approaches
• Design and present a short, creativity-based learning sequence
• Analyse and adapt creative methods to suit specific learning goals and classroom contexts