Creativity Lab

Teacher

Scope

Develop creativity skills through creative writing, story-telling, comics, animation, digital media and video art in education.

ECVET points: 3.5

Target groups

Teachers and trainers in primary, secondary schools, vocational education schools and organizations, adult learning providers.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the training course, the participant is expected to:

Organize classes, projects and lessons using different learning means to enhance creativity in students
Understand the basic concepts of creativity and creation
Combine different techniques for developing creative lessons
Enhance creativity skills in classroom
Organize a creativity laboratory in school

Methodology

Presentations
Examples and case studies
Workshops and exercises facilitated by the trainer

Thematic units

Introduction to creativity
Creating with words: creative writing, story telling
Creating with words and images: illustrated storyboards, comics
Creating with digital media: animation, video art
Organization of Creativity lab

Learning material

The learning material consists of presentations and support material in English language.

Cost

Tuition fee: 400 euro per person
The cost includes the learning material and the certificates: Certificate of completion, Europass Certificate Supplement, Europass Mobility

Cultural activities (optional): 80 euro per person*
The cost includes a) a walking tour of Piraeus and welcome dinner, b) a guided tour of Athens, visit to Archaeological sites and c) a common dinner with live music in Athens. The cost of local transportation and the entrance fees to sites and museums are not included.

* Due to the COVID-19 situation, currently we are not organising the usual cultural programme. Instead, we propose a guided tour of Athens with a professional guide (visit to Acropolis hill, the Parthenon, Plaka and Monastiraki). Cost: 150€ up to 20 people. The cost is shared between those who attend the tour. Costs for transportation and entrance fees to Acropolis are not included in the above amount.

The cost can be funded by Erasmus+ programme KA1 mobility of staff.

Training sessions

Location	Dates	Cost
Piraeus	10-14/10/2022	400€
Piraeus	6-10/3/2023	400€
Piraeus	9-13/10/2023	400€

Further information

Lila Anthopoulou, tel: +30 2104286227, e-mail: lila@idec.gr

Testimonials

What people say about this course

A joyful and creative learning work with enthusiast teacher, very happy with the course. Going home with a lot of new inspiration and plans.

Claudia, CVO Antwerpen, Belgium

I really enjoyed the course! It was a great and very friendly experience for me. The trainers were wonderful! They manage to create a positive learning atmosphere. I learned many things that I will put in practice when I return to my country. It was definitely a creative course! Thank you for your hospitality!

Eleni, Primary School Latsion, Cyprus

Course means developing creative skills.

Elena, Scoala Gimnaziala comuna Timisesti, Romania

Thank you for all! You are very professional. I loved the course.

Alejandro, Escuela de Arte Toledo, Spain

The development of creativity is done without stress.

Gabriela, Scoala Gimnaziala comuna Timisesti, Romania

I really enjoyed the course, I recommend IDEC.

Marina, Primary School Giolou, Cyprus

I liked it very much!

Marta, Agrupamento de Escolas de Alcanena, Portugal

The course was both stimulating and delivered with valuable content. Very pleasant, theoretical and practical in a balanced way. I could take it again. It tought us to remember to create and break routine and communicate that to our public. Creativity is a very underestimated subject although it is the fuel to everything we do and the way to always go forward.

Alexandra, Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Nord-Est, Romania

I enjoyed it! Congratulations!

Joao, Agrupamento de Escolas de Alcanena, Portugal

It was good inspiration for the future and a good starting point to change the way I teach at school.

Sigrid, Tabasalu Ühisgümnaasium, Estonia

IDEC: very nice personnel!

Delia, Lycée Nic-Biever, Luxembourg

Idec is a great organization. They are all helpful and gave us the necessary information. You immediately felt welcome.

Alexia, Lycée Nic-Biever, Luxembourg

I really enjoyed the creativity lab course. Now please, fingers crossed, that I manage back home to have my creativity lab. Ok, I will have… a small one for begging.

Ivana, Primary School Grigora Viteza, Croatia

The course was very useful for my future practice as a teacher and was very fun and entertaining. Thanks to the participants and our hosts, especially Xenia and Lila. Thank you for the lovely experience!

Elena, Srednja skola Hrvatski kralj Zvonimir, Croatia

The course is very various and provides the participants with different aspects of creativity which may be used in classroom.

Anna, Gimnazjum nr 1, Poland

It is very interesting for opening the mind and do something different and useful to help to create a better atmosphere in our classes.

Augusto, Asociación Cultural Meridinao Imaginario, Spain

Well organized course and helpful teachers.

Sergül, Yeşilyazı Ortaokulu, Turkey

Creativity Lab is so contagious! Pass it on!

Jan, GO! Geel, Belgium

I highly recommend this class for everyone interested in creativity. This class offered tools to work with at my job. Group spirit was great and we had so much fun! Visiting Greece was an excellent experience!

Sonja, Raumanmeren Merimuseosäätiö sr, Finland

This course helped me a lot and it contributes to my professionalisation! I am sure I am going to use some of the things I’ve learned here to plan and make my own media message with my students. I got different inputs that triggered my creativity.

Marina, Osnovna škola Pantovčak, Croatia

I take a lot of inspirational ideas and challenges to my day-to-day job!

Raquel, Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança, Portugal

The most things we saw in course I already knew but I learned to see them in another perspective to use them in another way in class.

Karen, GO! Geel, Belgium

I met my learning expectations and gained more interest on those subjects. Liked the way our group was creative together and in every person a change appeared. Thank you.

Eda, Tabasalu Ühisgümnaasium, Estonia

Really enjoyed it. Interesting and very creative ideas that helped me develop as a teacher! Go for it!

Christiana, Dimotiko Konstantinoupoleos, Cyprus

I am happy that creativity can be learned and has a process and a practice. I like controled processes and methodologies, because they are better for my way of learning. Thank you very much to all the team of trainees and to the staff, who were all really nice and lovely! See you soon!

Ivone, Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança, Portugal

Course Features

Lectures 21
Quizzes 0
Duration 5 days
Language English
Students 0
Assessments Yes

Day 1 6
- Lecture1.1
  
  Presentation of participants
- Lecture1.2
  
  Expectations from the training course
- Lecture1.3
  
  Introduction to the training course, syllabus, methodology, learning outcomes
- Lecture1.4
  
  Creativity, what is it?
- Lecture1.5
  
  Why we need creativity?
- Lecture1.6
  
  How can we be more creative?
Day 2 3
- Lecture2.1
  
  Creative with words
- Lecture2.2
  
  Creative writing
- Lecture2.3
  
  Story telling
Day 3 4
- Lecture3.1
  
  The basic elements: colors, forms, schemes, structures
- Lecture3.2
  
  Creating with words and pictures
- Lecture3.3
  
  Illustrated storyboards
- Lecture3.4
  
  Comics
Day 4 4
- Lecture4.1
  
  Creating with digital media
- Lecture4.2
  
  Stop motion animation
- Lecture4.3
  
  Digital animation
- Lecture4.4
  
  Video art
Day 5 4
- Lecture5.1
  
  How to organise a Creativity lab in school
- Lecture5.2
  
  Reflexion – evaluation of the training course
- Lecture5.3
  
  Certificates – Europass Mobility
- Lecture5.4
  
  Farewell

Jean Glover

15 years of experience as a professional trainer of behavioural and developmental workshops. Wide range of needs-based training experience from banking to manufacturing environments.

•Customized training in Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Leadership, Time Management, Interpersonal Communication, Selling Skills, Coaching, Creativity, and Customer Care.

•Experienced with D.I.S.C. profiling and VILT competent. DDI Targeted Selection qualified trainer.

•Trainer for SMS ‘Positive Power and Influence’.

•Has developed and managed quality of a training team. Regularly offers HR consultancy. Facilitates client meetings.

Enthusiasm and humour are key personality elements. Develops enjoyable, stimulating and useful training environments where people can have fun, experience workshop content and apply it to themselves and their work environments. Has trained widely in mainland Europe and the Balkans, also UK and South Africa and lived in Denmark, Belgium and Greece.
10 years experience with The British Council, specializing in Proficiency, Academic, Business and Medical English. Cambridge and IELTS examining experience.

Peny Fylaktaki

Playwright and theatre translator. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MA in Translation (Distinction) from the University of Surrey, UK and a PhD in Theatre Translation and Cultural Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has attended the Creative Writing programme at the College of Creative Arts, Manchester, UK and a one-year course in playwriting at the ITI Institute of Athens. She teaches translation and playwriting courses at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at the University of West Macedonia. She has been awarded with the National Prize for Playwrights by the Ministry of Culture while her plays and translations have been staged in Greece and abroad.

Polyxeni Tsopanoglou

Studied Fine Arts at the University of Paris VIII (Master of Arts, Art and Pedagogy option). She is active in the design and animation of art workshops for children (Pireos Techni, Pyrna, Ezart-Studio, Pedion Draseis...), the study and realization of children's activity programs (Natural History Museum, Piraeus Mayor, Association of Cities Friendly to Children, Net for Children's Rights...), the art direction of children's theatre ("Ergastiri" 2002-2012). She participates in conferences for artistic and educational practices (Pedagogical Institute, 45th Primary Education Directorate), realises seminars of Art education for teachers and educators, and teaches in the field of visual arts in nursery and primary schools and Vocational Training Institutes.

Babis Alexiadis

An animator and media artist that works between London and Athens. He works mainly with traditional animation techniques. He produces animation and film projects for interdisciplinary platforms such as theatre, site specific installations, music videos, commercials and other visual media. Recent projects include an animation commission for Ron Arad’s 360 projection installation Curtain Call (2016) London, currently on an international tour. Also an animation commission for the 50th Dimitria Festival (2015), Thessaloniki, the creative direction of moving image for the theatre production The Barometer of My Heart (2015), London, a 360 animation projection for Mark Storor’s theatre production The Fat Girl Gets A Haircut and Other Stories (2011), London, an animation for the award winning touring opera production Laika The Spacedog (2012) and an animation for the award-winning theatre production For The Best (2010), London.

Creativity & Innovation