🎨 Pre-course Assignment: How Creativity Shapes Learning

Objective:

To reflect on the role of arts and crafts education in supporting broader learning and to explore how these subjects are valued and applied in your own educational context.

Instructions:

Before the course begins, please write a short reflection (max 1 page) addressing the following:

- Describe a moment or learning experience where arts or crafts played a key role in student engagement or understanding.

- How did this experience influence other areas of learning (e.g. language, emotional development, collaboration)?

- How are arts and crafts subjects currently used or valued in your country’s education system or your own teaching practice?

- What challenges or opportunities do you see in integrating creative subjects more deeply into everyday learning?

Optional:

Bring a small item, image, or material that represents this experience or your teaching context. We’ll use these as conversation starters during the first day of the course.

[Do the preliminary task in a way that suits you, in the parts that you are able to complete.]