Creative Partnerships in Practice: Developing Creative Learners

✍ Scribed by David Parker

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the Creative Partnerships programme began in 2002, it has helped almost 5,000 schools, 90,000 teachers and over 1 million young people to embrace creative learning. Those involved have seen notable improvements in achievement and in measurable aspects of personal development, such as attendance.

✦ Table of Contents

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Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.
Creative Planning and Evaluating – Change Processesor Change Arts Projects?
Questions, questions, questions
Why evaluate anyway?
The four phase evaluation model
‘Ways in’ with planning and evaluation
Examples of noteworthy aspects of this model ofplanning and evaluating
Reflection – useful thoughts to keep in mind duringthe reflection phase
What you will achieve by asking these questions
2.
School Stories – How Did CreativePartnerships Work in Practice?
The Arnold Centre, Rotherham
Lancasterian Special School, West Didsbury
Minterne Community Junior School, Sittingbourne
3. Creative School Ethos
Background – why is ethos important?
Types of creative school ethos
The School Ethos Research Project: Case studies ofhow types of ethos evolved in schools
4.
Creative Learning – Pupil Impact
What the numbers say: statistical analyses of CreativePartnerships’ impact on pupil attainment andattendance
Creativity and pupil well-being – how does a creativeapproach help?
Impacts on student learning – the case of visuallearning and literacy skills
Summary: The outcomes of Creative Partnerships
5. Creative Professional Development for Teachers
The impacts of Creative Partnerships on teachers andschool staff
6.
Creative Artists and Their Practice– Do They Really Add Value?
Case Study: Signature Pedagogies
Pedagogic practices of creative practitioners
Benefits of creative practitioners to creative learning
7. Creativity in Schools and
Parental Involvement
Parental influence on children’s learning
Children talking about school in the home – why isthis important to parents?
How creativity helps shift parents’ views on children’slearning and the role of the curriculum
Parent’s views on the long-term benefits of creativelearning
Parents as learners
Parents joining the creative learning journey
Connecting schools and communities
Summary: The benefits of creative learning for parentsand how schools can embed this in their practice
8. Creative Assessment
and Progression
Assessing creativity – what are the choices?
Developing a new assessment tool
Five creative ‘habits’ of the creative mind
Using the new model in your school or learning site
End of book notes
Afterword: CreativePartnerships – The Future
References
Appendix 1: Creative Partnerships 2002 –2011: Key Facts and Figures
Appendix 2: Discussing the Rhetorics ofCreativity – Prompt Questionsfrom Banaji et al. (2010)
Appendix 3: Creative Learning – BigPaper Training Exercise andExamples of Outcomes
Appendix 4: Evaluation – CreativeLearning Forms
Appendix 5: Discussing Well-being andLearning – Prompt Questionsfrom McLellan et al. (2012)
Appendix 6: Progression in Creativity –Field Trial 1 Notes to Teachers
Index