Official Opening by Irish Minister of Education and Skills, Mr Ruairi Quinn TD, and the NI Minister for Education, Mr John O’Dowd MLA.

Launch of book: Approaches to Creativity: A Guide for Teachers* by Mr Ruairi Quinn with a short afterword by co-author Professor Orison Carlile.

Professor Teresa Cremin, Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University: Inspiring passion, possibility and creativity in teaching and learning – followed by questions and discussion.

Dr Anne Looney, Chief Executive, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Dublin
Mr Richard Hanna, Interim Chief Executive, NI Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA): Innovation and creative classrooms – how NCCA and CCEA work can support creative teaching and learning.

Workshop 1 – Aspen Suite 1

facilitated by Dr Michael Finneran and Ms Dorothy Morrissey, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Noticing deeply: Exploring the borderlands and tensions between imagination and subversion in teacher education
This workshop will explore an approach to aesthetic education devised in the Lincoln Centre Institute in New York and premised on the work of Maxine Greene in which students develop their capacities for imaginative learning by engaging with a live work of art: a painting, play, musical recital, poem or film.

Workshop 2 – Aspen Suite 2

facilitated by Ms Majella Dempsey and Ms Angela Rickard, NUI Maynooth Critical reflection in science teaching and learning: a creative approach to the introduction to teaching practice
This presentation/workshop will introduce an innovative, social constructivist approach – CRiSTaL (Critical Reflection in Science Teaching and Learning) – designed to support second year BSc Science Education students to observe, analyse and construct lessons before beginning their teaching practice in second level schools.

Workshop 3 – Redwood Suite

facilitated by Dr Michael Flannery, Marino Institute of Education Online CPD: analysing primary teachers’ perspectives on creativity, imagination and innovation
This workshop will examine perspectives on creativity, imagination and innovation as communicated by primary teachers while participating in online continuing professional development, and comparing viewpoints expressed in online discourse with workshop discussions and other sources.

Workshop 4 – Hazel Suite

Facilitated by Ms Lorraine Cheadle and Ms Grainne Doherty, St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, Belfast and Ms Sara Liddell and Ms Clare Caughey, Tor Bank School, Dundonald, Co. Down
Primary 1 iPads – children’s creativity
This seminar will focus on the use of iPads within a Severe Learning Disability setting and in a mainstream primary school. The facilitators will be exploring the use of iPads for assessment and how they can be used to support pupils with ASD and in a mainstream classroom.

Dr Tom Hesketh and Professor Teresa O’Doherty, SCoTENS Co-Chairs: The future of SCoTENS 10 years on: a session to discuss SCoTENS’ future plans, following a very positive external evaluation by a team from Oxford University’s Department of Education.

Launch of Reports in Redwood Suite Reception Area
Promoting Literacy and Numeracy through Teacher Education: SCoTENS 2011 Conference and Annual Reports, launched by Ms Brigid McManus, former Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills The compilation report: Exploring Japanese Lesson Study as a Model of Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning; Effective Mentoring in Physical Education Teacher Education, and Domestic Abuse: Using Arts-based Education to help Student Teachers learn about the Context and Impact on Children, launched by Professor Harry McMahon, formerly of University of Ulster, co-founder of SCoTENS.

Sir Ken Robinson, keynote address (on video from the US)
Optimising Creativity in Teachers and Students: the implications for Teacher Educators, followed by plenary discussion.

Sacha Abercorn, the Duchess of Abercorn
Inspiring Educators: the work of the Pushkin Trust, with Anne McErlane, Regional Leader, the Pushkin Trust, and two participating head teachers, Siobhan Smith and Carmel McKeown.

Professor Lisbeth Goodman, Chair of Creative Technology and Professor of Education, University College Dublin
Creative Technology Innovation and Creative Pedagogy – the SMART bottom line.

Sir Ken Robinson, closing address (on video from the US) – A call to action.