Location: Dublin, Ireland

Bringing imaginative possibilities to your classroom.

This course is designed to help you to ignite your passion for creative expression, to give you confidence in your communicative ability and to help you in bringing your classroom into a space of inspiration and creativity.

Through hands-on, and interactive activities, you will discover diverse narratives and perspectives that should enrich your thoughts, emotions, intuitions, beliefs, and values. You will be able to write, draw, sing, or even dance your ideas and emotions! You will understand the significance of the body in teaching and learning. This will broaden your understanding and enrich your ability to inspire and captivate your students with creative expressive approaches which integrate mind, body and emotions in learning.

This course will use a variety of training approaches and strategies, including engaging workshops, embodied pedagogies, using a varied modality of texts, dynamic group discussions, and immersive field learning projects. Participants will also improve their communication skills in English through the exploration of significant exponents of literature, film, art, society, and more, as sources of inspiration and deeper insight into the cultural significance of the creative process.

Participants should be teachers of English working in secondary education, with a minimum level of English corresponding to C1 or C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Teachers in general, working in other areas of secondary education and those with a personal interest in creative writing, might also benefit from the creative writing approaches.

For further information, please consult the reference programme for this course.

-- Cancellation up to 30 days prior to commencement date: Cancellation Fee €250 per participant

-- Cancellation 30 days prior to commencement date or later: No refund.

-- There is no refund if a participant fails to complete the programme.