Creativity as Practice is a programme of professional training inspired by feedback from teachers who visited the Hundred Languages of Children exhibition – a thought-provoking exhibition inspired by the values of pre-schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Following feedback from workshops organised by CCI, we found that teachers wanted to be able to use their own creative approach once artists have “left the building”.
The Creativity as Practice course was designed in response to these requests and aimed to develop open-ended, sustainable practices – allowing teachers to develop their own creative learners.
This is what the course involves:
- participants attend a series of hand-on creative workshops that allow them to explore their own creative potential and experience the creative process from the position of learning.
- participants take part in an inquisitive and exploratory approach to children’s learning through play, experimentation and reflection.
- participants develop their own creative practice by designing, undertaking and reflecting on a creative project in collaboration with the children they teach and a CCI artist as mentor.
- participants who completed the final assignment gained accreditation as part of the Further Professional Studies Programme offered by the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.
My mentor helped me to piece it together… it was like somebody had turned the light on.
Creativity as Practice Course Participant
It’s made me think in a different way.
Creativity as Practice Course Participant
A short report on the pilot project in 2005/2006 involving 25 early years practitioners from Norfolk and Cambridgeshire can be downloaded here: Creativity as Practice.