Creative Professional Development

WHERE CREATIVITY
MEETS OPPORTUNITIES
2024 – 2025 Associate Creative Schools
Continous Professional Development
  • Master basic tools and strategies in 12 hours
  • Immediate classroom application 

MANDATORY CORE Module (6 hours):
DISCOVERING CREATIVITY

  • Introduction to Creative Learning
  • Starting a Creative Thinking Classroom: Environment, Strategies and Tools

ELECTIVES (6 hours):
POWERS OF ARTS

  • Elective 1:
    Enhancing students’ critical thinking, communication, problem-solving and collaboration
  • Elective 2:
    Connecting the arts to subject knowledge teaching

Term 1 enrolment is now full.
New applicants will be wait-listed.

Phase I Training Details

Target

All primary and junior secondary school teachers in Hong Kong

Workshop will be conducted in Cantonese

Date

2024
October 24      (Core) 

October 25      (Core) 
November 15  (Elective 1) 
December 6    (Elective 2)

Time

2:00 – 5:00 PM

Location

Kowloon District (Exact location to be confirmed)

Phase II Training: Janaury – March 2025

FREE

Collect professional development hours!

Complete 2 Core + 1 Elective for 2 teachers (minimum) in 1 term → 1 FREE in-school Parent Workshop!

✓ Priority consideration for 2025 – 2028 Creative School application

AFTEC Jockey Club Creative Futures Project 2024 – 2028

“I used to think that creativity was only apparent in some subjects but now I realise that creativity is a mindset that can be applied in any environment and can be cultivated systematically.” – Ms Lee

 

AFTEC’s Unique Creative Learning Model

  • Connects traditional teaching
  • Inspires creative mindsets
  • Develops bespoke arts-based cross curriculum learning making each school distinctive
  • Nutures generic skills

With proof of concept from the pilot Jockey Club Arts-based Cross Curriculum Creative Learning Project 2021 – 2024, this Creative Futures Project will equip educators to embed innovative thinking into curriculum design and implementation, furthering creative education in Hong Kong.

Pilot Creative Schools 2021 – 2024:

  • Christian and Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Primary School (Ping Shek)
  • HHCKLA Buddhist Ching Kok Lin Association School
  • Ma On Shan St. Joseph’s Primary School
  • Shun Tak Fraternal Association Lee Kam Primary School
  • St. Rose of Lima’s School
  • Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School
  • Tuen Mun Government Primary School
  • Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Primary School