Introduction to Teaching Creative Writing
Identify techniques and learn practical skills to effectively teach creative writing in a variety of different contexts.
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Introduction to Teaching Creative Writing
Learn how to best teach Creative Writing as a subject
Creative writing is used in school, college, and university settings worldwide as a subject in its own right, and as a teaching technique for exploring and communicating ideas in almost any discipline.
It’s also increasingly being used within health and social care and criminal justice settings for therapy and personal development.
On this informative, three-week creative writing course, you’ll gain all the skills you need to teach creative writing in your context.
Discover various settings in which creative writing is best used
You’ll get engaged in the debate about the value of creative writing and its uses, and will learn about the various contexts and ways in which creative writing is used. These include:
- As part of health and social care
- As a community-building tool
- A way to develop confidence and empathy
- A tool for exploring and communicating ideas
Understand the best practices to begin teaching creative writing
You’ll reflect on the ethical considerations when teaching creative writing, and will develop an awareness of safeguarding particular personal issues when practising your teaching in order to make the workspace ‘safe’.
Finally, you’ll develop practical teaching skills and ideas that can be implemented in a variety of situations. This knowledge will help you finetune and model your overall writing process so that you can teach creative writing to your best ability.
Learn from the experts at the Manchester Writing School
The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University hosts the largest English and creative writing masters programme in the United Kingdom. You’ll be guided throughout by 27 active researchers and teachers within the creative writing field.
Syllabus
Week 1
Can you teach Creative Writing and how should you do it?
Welcome
Introducing you to the team and the course!
Can Creative Writing be taught?
Different perspectives on this knotty question!
Journalling your experience
Looking at writing journals and creative exercises!
Free Writing
The importance and benefits of Free Writing
Generating ideas
Where do we get our ideas from?
Reflection
Reflecting on our work this week!
Week 2
Where can you teach Creative Writing?
Creative Writing outside of the academy
Creative Writing isn't just something that happens in universities, it happens in a vast array of different places
Community Writing
Working in different and diverse communities
Stakeholders
Who are they?
A Creative Writing resource
Resources you can use
Reflection
So we've thought about where and to whom you can teach Creative Writing and hopefully you're now aware that the possibilities are endless
Week 3
How has it been done, and how might you do it differently?
Introduction
Putting it all into practice
The workshop: history and set up
What is a workshop?
The workshop: manifesto and ethos
Investigating the manifesto and ethos
Improvisation and decentring the self
How to move beyond the instrumental
How to construct a writing exercise
Ideas on writing exercises
Final reflection
Key points from the course
Who is this accredited by?
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.
When would you like to start?
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Engage in discussions and thinking around the different spaces Creative Writing can be taught in
- Identify the various contexts and ways in which Creative Writing is used in developing confidence and empathy
- Reflect on the ethical considerations and develop an awareness of safeguarding issues involved in teaching Creative Writing
- Develop practical teaching skills and ideas that can be implemented in a variety of situations
Who is the course for?
This course is primarily designed for English teachers teaching within the UK, freelance writers who have no experience within the pedagogy of creative writing, as well as health, social care and criminal justice professionals who are looking to use creative writing within their respective practice.
Who will you learn with?
I am Professor of Contemporary Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am the author of three poetry collections and recently edited the anthology 100 Queer Poems, alongside Mary Jean Chan.
Who developed the course?
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Met University has a driving ambition to discover and disseminate knowledge and make higher education as accessible and beneficial to all those with the passion and ability to succeed.
Manchester Poetry Library
Based in the heart of Manchester, a UNESCO City of Literature, we are developing an extensive collection of contemporary poetry from books to recordings, in multiple languages.
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$349.99 for one year
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Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$89/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 18 May 2024
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