This two-day workshop introduces the Creative Teaching Framework (CTF), which provides a comprehensive, practical and unique framework from which you can make your teaching highly effective, interesting and creative. It has been derived from over 30 years of diverse teaching experience, observation of thousands of teaching professionals, integration of key knowledge from experimental and cognitive psychology, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and validated through extensive professional practice in a diverse range of educational contexts. The CTF is a total pedagogic approach to learning design and applies equally well to the development of e-learning and blended learning as it does to the face-to-face context.

Most importantly, the CTF offers diverse ways to make teaching effective, interesting and creative - enabling you to decide what resources and strategies best suit your personality and teaching style. The approach will work successfully in all mainstream education sectors from primary to higher.

Learning Outcomes:

* Identify the benefits of creative teaching model excellent and creative performance.

* Identify the underlying 'science' of effective learning design.

* Analyse the 'art' of creative teaching.

* Use information-communication technologies as learning enhancement tools.

* Design creative teaching strategies in both face-to-face and online contexts

Dennis Sale is presently Senior Education Advisor at Singapore Polytechnic. He has worked across all areas of the British educational system and provided a wide range of consultancies in public and private sector organisations, both in the UK and in several Asian countries. Over the past 15 years Dennis has been extensively involved in training, coaching and assessing teaching professionals.

His specialist areas include ‘creative teaching’ and ‘promoting thinking in the curriculum’. Dennis has developed original and practical frameworks for developing creative teaching and good thinking, which are increasingly being adopted in educational institutions in Singapore and other Asian countries.

He has conducted numerous workshops in these areas, presented papers at international conferences and published in a variety of journals and books. Dennis is noted as one of Singapore’s most charismatic presenters at conferences and being able to make the complex both simple and fun.

Date: Wed, 12 - Thu 13 November  08     Deadline: 13 October 2008

Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm 

Venue: Singapore Teachers Union, 162 Tagore Avenue (S) 787752

Fees: Standard rate - $320, STU-members discounted rate - $250                                         

(Registration fees inclusive of course materials, tea-breaks, lunches and prevailing GST.)