Guides

A Field Guide to Creative Curriculum Design and Implementation has been written to support and guide the production of creativity project plans in schools. The guide offers teachers some key principles in how to design and develop a creative project in K12 schools in general.

How to use: The guide has been broken into 6 key sections: Vision and Objectives, Curriculum and Course Design, Pedagogy, Assessment in the Curriculum, Implementation, and Project Evaluation. Each section ends with a Checklist for schools – to support clear processes and structures for putting the theory into practice and to support the production of clear and visionary curriculum plans.

This guide is supported and underpinned by the previous work of PISA, Prof. Bill Lucas, The Education Foundation, Deborah Eyre and High Performance Learning, The Welsh Government and the experiences of a number of UK Schools in the Odyssey Teaching Hub.

The Teacher Toolkit Guide to Creativity Development: Training Book 2020 is 400 page bilingual document (in English and Chinese) compiled by GIoCT, collecting all the presentations and toolkit documents given by our trainers during lectures and workshops in 2020. It offers a rich collection of teacher training materials in a variety of topics related to creativity development at schools, including both theory and best practice sharing.

Featured presentations include: "Challenges in School Curriculum Development: From a UK higher education perspective", "Creativity Learning Model", "Elements of a Creativity Course", "Learning Aims and Outcomes in Creativity", "Design Thinking in the Classroom", "Do not teach: Cocreate", "Developing Science Projects for Older Students", "Problem-based learning: A Case Study of Science Subject", "Designing a Cross-Curricular Project for Middle School Students", and "Creating a learning community: digital tools".
 

The Guide brings together experts and educators from Cambridge University, Winchester University, Cranfield University, Odyssey Teaching Hub and Bryanston School.