Developing Teachers’ Creativity

Wednesday 1st May 2024, 4.00pm - 5.00pm BST.

Living a creative life or developing an artistic skill can improve wellbeing, confidence and a positive mindset. Yet often, it's a skill we 'unlearn' as we grow out of childhood. How can we best support ourselves to reconnect with our creativity, and in turn, pass this onto the children we teach?

Led by Dr Penny Hay, this session will highlight and discuss ways in which teachers can identify, nurture and maintain their own creativity, and how this can positively impact the art lessons they deliver.

If you are a teacher who feels you would like to explore or reconnect with your creativity, we would love for you to join us!

Please note, this event is free and open to AccessArt members only. A zoom link, accessible via logging into the AccessArt website, will be sent round a few days before the event. Please ensure you can log in well before the event so we can help you with any login issues. Please contact andrea@accessart.org.uk if you have any problems.

About Penny Hay.

Dr. Penny Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Professor of Imagination Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning, Bath Spa University and Founding Director House of Imagination. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identity as artists.

Penny is the strand leader for Creative Pedagogy in the Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Research Centre, Associate Director of TRACE at Bath Spa University, Chair of Imagination Research Space, and co-chair of the eARTh research group focusing on education, arts and the environment. She was recently the co-investigator on an Erasmus+ project Interstice in Europe researching the space between art, children and educators, and artist researcher on the AHRC funded Rethinking Waste Compound13 Project in Mumbai.

Penny was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Arts University Plymouth and a Fellowship in Imagination at the Centre for Future Thinking; she is a National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, with awards from Action for Children’s Arts, Thornton Education Trust, Landscape Institute and Creative Bath.