Professional Development
Music For Change 2008-2010
Between 2008 and 2010, Music For Change ran week long courses for artists wanting to gain a Certificate in Arts Delivery and the Global Dimension. Linked to the primary and secondary curriculum global development aims and objectives, Sara Clifford, for Inroads, delivered training in creative learning and facilitation skills, to complement training from Oxfam in global development issues, and from trainers from a range of cultural backgrounds offering toolkit exercises in music and dance to explore the curriculum.
Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival training
SPRING 2010 – Inroads were commissioned to train volunteers for the festival in Child protection, Health and Safety and Communication Skills.
Artists in Creative Education
September 2010:
Sara Clifford and Chrissie Tiller won the contract from Creativity, Culture and Education, working in partnership with three other European cultural and educational organisations: Drommarnas Hus, Sweden, KulturKontakt Austria (KKA) and; Kunstenaars&Co, to deliver a week of professional development for artists from five European countries, and to develop a new practical guide to be presented at an international conference in Brussels in September 2011, available as a download:
See www.artistsincreativeeducation.com
National Skills Academy- Train the Trainer
Spring 2010: Inroads were commissioned by the National Skills Academy/Creative and Cultural Skills Sector Council, to deliver part of the pilot Train the Trainer course for ‘offstage’ theatre staff, working alongside the National Theatre.
Kwame
Photo by Stuart Griffiths
Seminars in association with Creative Partnerships
2009
Kwame Kwei-Armah – Kwame spoke to a packed Pelham House about the future and young people.
2008
Nitin Sawhney – Nitin gave an informative and entertaining presentation about his training, his music and his interest in working with young people.
2007
A seminar about Accreditation for creative practitioners at the De La Warr Pavilion was led by Tony Fegan from the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and Liz Whitehead, Director of Fabrica Art Gallery.
Continuing Professional Development for creative practitioners – one day courses
BRAND NEW ONE DAY COURSES IN ASSOCIATION WITH CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS, SUSSEX AND SURREY
These courses will be delivered in East Sussex, West Sussex and Surrey between November 2010 and July 2011.
A brand new set of one day courses, subsidised by East Sussex County Council, led by creative practitioners for creative practitioners. Presented by Creative Partnerships, working within the Centre for Continuing Engagement at the University of Sussex, in association with Inroads, Continuing Professional Development Consultants.
Facilitation Skills
Enabling ‘Participant Voice’
Next Steps
Working with Cultural Organisations
Creative Practice and Learning in formal and informal education
CREATIVE PRACTICE AND LEARNING
This is a modular course accredited by the University of Brighton. The pilot was delivered in 2008/9 at the University Centre Hastings, with 10 students successfully completing the course. Led by Sara Clifford with creative practitioners and creative agents via Creative Partnerships, the course gives a thorough and supportive grounding in transferring your practice into formal and informal education settings.
The modules are:
- Planning a project, including creative learning, project structure
- Delivering a project, including group facilitation, session planning, toolbox
- Reflection and Review
- Business skills
Feedback included:
Students:
- I feel a lot more professional with this reflective information and experience. It has also given me a lot of practical exercises to use, especially warm ups – previously I felt less confident about these. An excellent course!
Education and Learning Manager, Towner Art Gallery:
The course gives the opportunity for artists/practitioners to interrogate and evaluate their work and where this sits within the wider context of socially engaged practice. For organisations such as Towner the course supports the future of gallery education developing in terms of critical enquiry
Creative Agent:
One practitioner I have been working with this year on an Enquiry project has found the course to be useful to her in providing much needed peer support whilst undertaking the work in school. She was also someone whose participation on the course in the first place acted very much in her favour at the point of selection of practitioners for the project
The Creative Curriculum – working with teachers
CREATIVITY IN TEACHING
What is a creative curriculum? How can teachers work with creative practitioners to enhance the curriculum? How can they update their own creative approaches for working in the classroom?
Inroads can offer INSET training for teachers, tailored to the needs of the group or the school.
Mark Robertson and Sara Clifford delivered INSET at Christchurch school, using drama and creative writing as ways of enhancing speaking, listening and writing.
Feedback included:
‘A great afternoon!’
‘Looking forward to trying out some of the activities.. I can use them straightaway in the classroom.’
Other recent school partners include Sutton Valence school; a cluster of Secondary and Primary schools in West Sussex, brought together by New Writing South to explore approaches to creative writing; and all the schools involved in the Creative Partnerships Enquiry programme across West and East Sussex and Surrey.