Project Overview

Seeding Your Creative Future

Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the AFTEC Jockey Club Creative Futures Project (Creative Futures Project) is a multi-level creative learning scheme designed to provide a much needed system-led approach to creative thinking in education institutions from tertiary to primary.

Based on a successful pilot (2021 – 2024), the key focus in this expanded version is in training teachers and creative practitioners.

With practical strategies for professionals to teach across the curriculum based on the 5C’s – Creativity, Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration and Contribution – creative practitioners join teachers for in-school classes to co-design and co-create lesson plans for use in classroom throughout the year.

PROJECT STRUCTURE

Teachers

1%

Course Satisfaction

1%

Greater confidence in designing and implementing creative education

1%

Deeper understanding of students’ ideas and encouraging them to think

Students

1%

Greater understanding, respect, and care for others

1%

Higher arts and cross-curriculum learning motivation

1%

Ability to express their feelings in different ways

“In the past, I worked by the rules and wanted the students to follow instructions within strict limitations to allow my class to run smoothly. Now I understand my thinking and behaviour have to change and allow greater participation by the students, to follow their lead more and the lessons may become more interesting too.” ~Miss Hung

What CORE FEATURES are there?

AFTEC’s Unique Creative Learning Model

  • Bridges traditional and creative classroom teaching through experiential, interactive methods
  • Offers systematic and rich professional training workshops
  • Supports individual schools in creating its own specialist cross-curriculum model
  • Cultivates 21st century creative thinking capacities in students to enhance learning to learn

Who will BENEFIT?

  • Partners / Collaborators:
    Tertiary sector professionals, postgraduates and undergraduates
  • Teaching Artists / Arts Companies interested in deeper reflective practices in arts education
  • Local primary school top management and teachers looking for a breakthrough in motivating students to learn creatively
  • Local junior secondary top management and teachers aiming to experience the basics in creative teaching via generic skills
  • Parents eager to gain practical tips to support creative thinking at home