Creative Teaching Methods
About this course
Art, music, drama and visual thinking are not just extras in the timetable: they are powerful ways to help students understand, remember and think more deeply about what they learn in any subject. This creative teaching methods course shows you how to use the arts and creativity as everyday learning tools, and how they can strengthen students' critical thinking, curiosity and confidence. It is designed for pre-primary, primary and secondary classrooms, and no artistic background is needed.
Over five days, you will explore practical, arts-based approaches that you can bring into maths, science, language, history and every other subject. You will learn how to use images and artworks to spark observation, questions and discussion, how to help students show their thinking through drawings, sketchnotes and visual maps, and how drama, music and movement can make abstract ideas easier to understand. You will also discover thinking routines that develop critical thinking, ways to adapt creative activities to different ages, and how to assess creativity and thinking in a fair and simple way. Every session is hands-on, so you will experience each method yourself before adapting it to your students.
By the end of the week, you will have designed your own creative lesson for your subject and age group and created a plan to make creativity a regular part of your teaching.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate art and creativity into everyday teaching in their subject.
- Evaluate and adapt creative activities to students' ages, needs and interests.
- Create a classroom climate where students feel free to imagine, experiment and express themselves.
- Share creative teaching practices with colleagues at their school.
- Use images and artworks to encourage students to observe, ask questions and discuss ideas.
- Apply visual thinking techniques, such as drawings, sketchnotes and mind maps, to help students organise their learning.
- Use drama, music and movement activities to explain and practise content in any subject.
- Apply thinking routines that develop students' critical and creative thinking.
- Design creative lessons and simple tools to assess creativity and thinking.
- Understand how art and creativity help students understand, remember and enjoy learning.
- Identify different creative approaches, such as visual arts, drama, music, movement and visual thinking.
- Recognise how creative activities can develop critical thinking, curiosity and questioning.
- Explain how creative methods can be adapted to pre-primary, primary and secondary students.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
*Please check our Terms & Conditions for details of the items included in the Coffee Corner.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
We want to read you
Reach out to us using our contact form and we will get back to you shortly.
