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THE STANDING CONFERENCEON TEACHER EDUCATION,NORTH AND SOUTHCreative Teachers for Creative Learners: Implications for Teacher EducationTenth Annual ConferenceKeynote speakersSir Ken Robinson, on video from the United StatesProfessor Teresa Cremin, The Open UniversitySacha Abercorn, the Duchess of Abercorn, Patron of the Pushkin PrizesThursday 11 - Friday 12 October 2012, Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, Cavan

Creative Teachers for Creative Learners:Implications for Teacher EducationPROGRAMMEThursday 11th October 2012Redwood Suite, Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, CavanChair:Professor Teresa O’Doherty, Head ofEducation, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick(Co-Chair SCoTENS)9.30 am Registration and refreshments, Redwood SuiteReception Area10.00 am Official Opening by Irish Minister of Education andSkills, Mr Ruairi Quinn TD, and the NI Ministerfor Education, Mr John O’Dowd MLA10.30 am Launch of book: Approaches to Creativity:A Guide for Teachers* by Mr Ruairi Quinnwith a short afterword by co-authorProfessor Orison Carlile11.00 am Professor Teresa Cremin, Professor ofEducation (Literacy), The Open University:Inspiring passion, possibility and creativityin teaching and learning - followed byquestions and discussion12.00 noon Dr Anne Looney, Chief Executive, NationalCouncil for Curriculum and Assessment(NCCA), DublinMr Richard Hanna, Interim Chief Executive,NI Council for the Curriculum, Examinations andAssessment (CCEA): Innovation and creativeclassrooms - how NCCA and CCEA work cansupport creative teaching and learning12.40 pm Round table discussion1.30 pm Lunch2.45 pm Parallel workshops - Teacher EducatorPerspectives (participants can choose toparticipate in two of these four workshops):Workshop 1 - Aspen Suite 1facilitated by Dr Michael Finneran andMs Dorothy Morrissey, Mary ImmaculateCollege, LimerickNoticing deeply: Exploring the borderlandsand tensions between imagination andsubversion in teacher educationThis workshop will explore an approach toaesthetic education devised in the LincolnCentre Institute in New York and premised onthe work of Maxine Greene in which studentsdevelop their capacities for imaginative learningby engaging with a live work of art: a painting,play, musical recital, poem or film.Workshop 2 - Aspen Suite 2facilitated by Ms Majella Dempsey andMs Angela Rickard, NUI MaynoothCritical reflection in science teaching andlearning: a creative approach to theintroduction to teaching practiceThis presentation/workshop will introduce aninnovative, social constructivist approach –CRiSTaL (Critical Reflection in Science Teachingand Learning) – designed to support secondyear BSc Science Education students to observe,analyse and construct lessons before beginningtheir teaching practice in second level schools.Workshop 3 - Redwood Suitefacilitated by Dr Michael Flannery,Marino Institute of EducationOnline CPD: analysing primary teachers’perspectives on creativity, imaginationand innovationThis workshop will examine perspectives oncreativity, imagination and innovation ascommunicated by primary teachers whileparticipating in online continuing professionaldevelopment, and comparing viewpointsexpressed in online discourse with workshopdiscussions and other sources.Workshop 4 - Hazel SuiteFacilitated by Ms Lorraine Cheadle andMs Grainne Doherty, St. Oliver Plunkett PrimarySchool, Belfast and Ms Sara Liddell andMs Clare Caughey, Tor Bank School,Dundonald, Co. DownPrimary 1 iPads – children’s creativityThis seminar will focus on the use of iPads withina Severe Learning Disability setting and in amainstream primary school. The facilitators willbe exploring the use of iPads for assessmentand how they can be used to support pupils withASD and in a mainstream classroom.4.30 pm Plenary feedback session from workshops5.15 pm Dr Tom Hesketh and Professor TeresaO’Doherty, SCoTENS Co-Chairs: The future ofSCoTENS 10 years on: a session to discussSCoTENS’ future plans, following a very positiveexternal evaluation by a team from OxfordUniversity’s Department of Education5.45 pm Close for evening7.15 pm Launch of Reports in Redwood SuiteReception AreaPromoting Literacy and Numeracy throughTeacher Education: SCoTENS 2011Conference and Annual Reports, launched byMs Brigid McManus, former Secretary General,Department of Education and SkillsThe compilation report: Exploring JapaneseLesson Study as a Model of Peer-to-PeerProfessional Learning; Effective Mentoringin Physical Education Teacher Education,and Domestic Abuse: Using Arts-basedEducation to help Student Teachers learn*Approaches to Creativity: A Guide for Teachers’, by Orison Carlile and Anne Jordan,McGraw-Hill/Open University Press

Creative Teachers for Creative Learners:Implications for Teacher Educationabout the Context and Impact on Children,launched by Professor Harry McMahon,formerly of University of Ulster, co-founderof SCoTENS8.00 pm Dinner in Redwood SuiteFriday 12th October 2012Redwood Suite, Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, CavanChair:Dr Tom Hesketh, Director Regional Training Unit(Co-Chair, SCoTENS)8.45 am Sir Ken Robinson, keynote address(on video from the US)Optimising Creativity in Teachers andStudents: the implications for TeacherEducators, followed by plenary discussion9.45 am Sacha Abercorn, the Duchess ofAbercornInspiring Educators: the work of the PushkinTrust, with Anne McErlane, Regional Leader,the Pushkin Trust, and two participating headteachers, Siobhan Smith andCarmel McKeown10.45 am Refreshments11.15 am Professor Lisbeth Goodman, Chair of CreativeTechnology and Professor of Education, UniversityCollege DublinCreative Technology Innovation andCreative Pedagogy – the SMART bottom line.11.45 am Plenary discussion12.30 pm Sir Ken Robinson, closing address (on videofrom the US) – A call to action1.00 pm Lunch and close of conferenceCONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONSMr Ruairi Quinn TD, was appointedMinister for Education and Skills in March2011. He has been a TD representing DublinSouth-East since 1977. He was leader ofthe Labour Party from 1997 to 2002. He hasvery extensive experience in government,having served as Minister of Labour (1983-86); Minister for Labour and the PublicService (1986-87); Minister for Enterprise and Employment(1993-94) and Minister for Finance (1994-97). As Minister forEducation and Skills, he is seen as the most reforming ministersince Donogh O’Malley in the 1960s, with particular interestsin patronage and pluralism, literacy and numeracy and trainingand re-skilling the newly unemployed . His political memoir,Straight Left – A Journey in Politics, was published in 2005.Before entering public life, he was an architect andtown planner.Mr John O’Dowd MLA became Minister for Education in theNorthern Ireland Executive in May 2011. In the autumn of 2011he stood in as Deputy First Minister while Martin McGuinnesswas contesting the Irish presidential election. He was born andgrew up in a rural community between Lurgan and Banbridge,and started his working life as a chef. He has been a memberof Sinn Fein for over 25 years, spending 14years as a councillor on Craigavon Counciland being elected in 2003 as MLA for UpperBann. Between 2007 and 2011 he was SinnFéin group leader in the Assembly andserved as Chair of the Public AccountsCommittee before becoming a member ofthe Education Committee in 2008.Professor Teresa O’Doherty is Dean ofEducation at Mary Immaculate College,University of Limerick, Limerick whereshe is responsible for the academicand administrative leadership of a largeeducation faculty, with almost 70 academicstaff and 2000 students. After completingher degree in Education at Mary ImmaculateCollege in 1984 Professor O’Doherty taught in the primarysector for more than a decade. She completed her Master’s inEducation at NUI Maynooth in 1989 and was awarded her PhDat the University of Limerick in 1997. She is a member of a widerange of academic, professional and administrative committeeson a regional and national level and is the Southern Co-Chairof SCoTENS. She has held a number of academic appointmentsincluding Lecturer in Education and Assistant Dean, Research inthe College of Education, University of Limerick.Professor Teresa Cremin (previouslyknown as Grainger) is Professor ofEducation (Literacy) at The Open University.She is a past President of the UnitedKingdom Literacy Association, jointcoordinator of the British EducationalResearch Association Special InterestGroup on Creativity and a member of theEconomic and Social Research Council Peer Review College.Professor Cremin is also a Fellow of the English Association,a Trustee of UKLA and chairs the International ReadingAssociation’s Outstanding Dissertation Award committee. Herteaching, consultancy and research focuses on the relationshipbetween teachers’ and students’ literate identities andpractices, and pedagogies of reading and writing for pleasureand creativity in teaching and learning. Current projects includeresearch into storytelling, and narrative and its relationship topossibility thinking and creativity in maths and science in theearly years. She has written and edited over 25 books.Dr. Anne Looney is Chief Executive of theNational Council for the Curriculum andAssessment (NCCA). A former post-primaryteacher of Religious Education and English,she joined the staff of the NCCA in 1997and was appointed CEO in 2001. She wasreappointed to the post in 2011. She holdsa Doctorate in Education from the Instituteof Education of the University of London. She has published oncurriculum and assessment policy, school culture and ethos,and religious education, and has presented papers in Ireland,north and south, in the US, Canada, Australia and China on arange of curriculum and assessment themes and on issues ofschool reform.

Creative Teachers for Creative Learners:Implications for Teacher EducationSir Ken Robinson is an internationallyrenownedexpert in the field of creativityand innovation in business and education,and his visionary consultancy skillsare employed by governments, majorcorporations and cultural organizationsworldwide. Originally from Liverpool, hegained a PhD in 1981 from the Universityof London for research into drama and theatre in education.He was the principal author of The Arts in Schools: Principles,Practice and Provision, a standard text in the UK and aroundthe world. From 1985 to 1989 he was Director of The Artsin Schools Project, a major UK initiative to improve theteaching of the arts, and in 1998 was appointed by the BritishGovernment to chair the National Advisory Committee onCreative and Cultural Education, the largest ever inquiry intothe importance of creativity in education and the economy. Hisreport, All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education, hada huge impact on both government and corporate attitudestowards creativity. He was the central figure in a strategy forcreative and economic development in Northern Ireland,where his blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, wasadopted by the NI Executive. Until 2001 Sir Ken was Professorof Education at Warwick University. He has served as advisor toa succession of high-profile public and private organizations,including the governments of Hong Kong and Singapore,the European Commission and Paul McCartney’s LiverpoolInstitute for Performing Arts. An inspirational business speakerand workshop leader, he was named SfB European BusinessSpeaker of the Year in 2000. His latest book is Out of Our Minds:Learning to be Creative (Wiley-Capstone). In 2003 he wasknighted.Sacha Abercorn, the Duchess ofAbercorn founded the Pushkin Trust whichbegan as the Pushkin Prizes in Ireland in1987. She is the great great great granddaughterof the Russian poet, AlexanderPushkin. The Pushkin Prizes came into beingas a creative writing competition in primaryschools from both traditions in Ireland, northand south, to help children express their thoughts and feelingsby creative means - to find their voice. The Prizes evolved into aTrust which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. Sachacame to live in Northern Ireland in County Tyrone in 1966 whenshe married James Hamilton, now the Duke of Abercorn. Theyhave 3 children and 3 grandchildren. She published a bookof prose-poems, Feather from the Firebird, in 2003. Shereceived an honorary degree from the University of Ulster in2003 and the OBE in 2008.Anne McErlane was a primary teacherfor 23 years. She has worked for CCEAdeveloping and writing materials forschools. She has also created onlineresources, teachers’ guides and ICLs whichare currently in use in primary schoolsthroughout Northern Ireland. Since 2004she has been involved with the PushkinTrust, as a teacher and then as Regional Leader. At present sheis responsible, along with Sacha Abercorn, for the design anddelivery of the Pushkin Inspire Programme. This aims to supportteachers by providing them with personal and professionaldevelopment centred on unlocking their creativity. Anne hasalso established her own training and consultancy business,andworks in primary schools throughout Northern Ireland.Siobhán Smith is principal ofAughnagarron National School, a fourclassroom school on the Longford/Cavanborder. She has been teaching in the schoolfor 14 years and this is her fourth year asprincipal. She has been involved with thePushkin Trust for the past 10 years andthis year accompanied a group of studentsto the ‘Summer Camp of the Imagination’ in Baronscourt, CoTyrone. She is married with four children, all of whom havetaken part in Pushkin and benefitted hugely fromtheir experience.Carmel McKeown has been a teachingprincipal for the past 9 years in St Anne’sCorkey, Co Antrim.During her time there theschool become a national winner of theRolls Royce Science Prize in 2008, achievedthe Eden Award for best environmentalproject in 2008 and the Pushkin CreativityAward in 2012. Before becoming a principalshe was a field officer for science and technology with theNorth East Education and Library Board. She believes that beingcreative and promoting the creativity of staff and pupils is animportant part of the principal’s role.Professor Lizbeth Goodman is Chairof Creative Technology Innovation andProfessor of Education at University CollegeDublin, where she leads the creative andsocial entrepreneurship modules for theall-Ireland Innovation Academy. Beforejoining UCD, she was Director of Researchfor Futurelab Education, working withDavid Puttnam’s team to establish innovative platforms forthe future of education in a context of global change. Shefounded SMARTlab in 1992 while at the Open University/BBC, developing new interactive teaching tools for interactivelearning in the areas of literature, gender and culture. That earlywork led to the ‘smart model’ of creative technology innovation(CTI), which has evolved over the years to include majorinternational collaborative projects on creative pedagogies andtechnologies to support ‘learning for all’. She is currently one ofthe principal investigators in the new UCD Centre for LearningInnovation, and also the chair of judges for the EC/ESF HERACultural Encounters call. in 2008 she was named Best Womanin the Academic and the Public Sphere and Best Womanin Technology by the Blackberry Rim international awardsteam. She was elected to Chair the Royal Irish Academy SocialSciences Committee in 2012.The Committee of SCoTENS extend their thanks to PeterSimpson and Shay Sweetnam from the North EasternEducation and Library Board ESAGS TV for assistance withproducing the Sir Ken Robinson video and for making a videoof the 2012 conference.

Creative Teachers for Creative Learners:Implications for Teacher EducationSCOTENS COMMITTEE (2011-2012)Professor Teresa O’Doherty and Dr Tom Hesketh (joint chairs), Dr Noel Purdy, Dr Geraldine Magennis, Mr Eugene Toolan,Dr Anne O’Gara, Dr Linda Clarke, Professor Marie Parker Jenkins, Professor Kathy Hall, Dr Aidan Mulkeen, Dr Carmel Gallagher,Ms Deirbhile Nic Craith, Mr Tomás Ó Ruairc, Dr Billy McClune, Mr Andy PollakDelegates who attended the 2011 SCoTENS annual conference at the Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel.SPONSORSThe Department of Education and Skills, Dublin; the Department for Employment and Learning, Belfast;the Department of Education, Bangor.INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIBERSSt. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, St Angela’s College, Sligo, Church of Ireland College ofEducation, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin, Froebel College of Education, Blackrock,Co. Dublin, St. Mary’s University College, Belfast, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, Dublin City University, University CollegeDublin, Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Galway, National University of Ireland Maynooth, University of Limerick,University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster, National College of Art and Design, Waterford Instituteof Technology, Irish Federation of University Teachers, Irish National Teachers Organisation, Association of Secondary Teachers inIreland, Teachers Union of Ireland, Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, National Council forCurriculum and Assessment, The Teaching Council (Ireland), General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland, Regional Training UnitBelfast, Donegal Education Centre, Drumcondra Education Centre, Kildare Education Centre, Monaghan Education Centre, TarbertEducation Centre, Middletown Centre for AutismCONTACTSThe Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South (SCoTENs)The Secretary of the Standing Conference on Teacher Education, North and South is Andy Pollak,and its Administrator is Patricia McAllister.They can be contacted at the Centre for Cross Border Studies,39 Abbey Street, Armagh, BT61 7EBTel: 028 (048 from Republic of Ireland) 3751 8282/1550 Fax: 028 3751 1721E-mails: a.pollak@qub.ac.uk and p.mcallister@qub.ac.uk/pma.mcallister@gmail.comSCoTENS website: www.scotens.orgThe Radisson Blu Farnham Estate Hotel, Cavan www.radissonblu.ie/CavanFor Directions see http://www.radissonblu.ie/farnham-estate-hotel/locationFind Us Sat Nav Co-ordinates for Farnham Estate: Latitude 53°59.519’ N Longtitude 7°23.983’ WThe Farnham Estate Hotel is located 4 kilometres from Cavan Town (on the R198) and is 90 minutes drive from Dublinand two hours drive from Belfast.