1. Contemporary Writer Identity and Education MA Writer/Teacher
Session 1: Exploring Identity as Writer/Teacher
Vicky Macleroy

2. Celebrating creativity collaboratively
I believe that an English teacher needs to model for the students how to write creatively and be able to say and show why it is important to be creative and be willing to take risks and show their creative writing to their students.
An English teacher needs to be a creative writer as you can then relate to your students’ writing process more easily and support them and have a better understanding of the elements that make creative writing effective.
p. 66
What relationship do you see between being a creative writer and a creative writing educator?

3. Teaching Creatively
Interrelationships between creative teaching, teaching for creativity and creative learning are still being explored and defined. Teachers and schools are, therefore, faced with the challenge of refining and elaborating the ways in which we can understand and enact these approaches to teaching and learning.
Craft (2005: 131)
In what ways has your own practice addressed these interrelationships during the autumn term?

4. Creativity and divergent thinking in schools
Ken Robinson – RSA Animate How far do you agree with the views on creativity presented in this education paradigm?

5. Creative Education
In pairs discuss and then present your views on one aspect of the definition of creativity outlined in the All Our Futures Report:
Using imagination
Pursuing purpose
Being original
Judging value
What is the relevance of this definition of creativity to your own practice?

6. The Rights of the Writer
Discuss how you could use this resource with young people.

7. Sessions for the Contemporary Writer Identity and Education
Structure of the course :
Module guideline
Module booklet
Learn.gold
Sessions to be held at Goldsmiths and at/with the following cultural institutions:
The Ministry of Stories –
The Complete Works –
The English and Media Centre –

8. Writer/Teacher Identity
How will you develop your creative practices as writer educators in a range of educational contexts?

9. Recommended reading
Understanding theoretical perspectives that relate to your practice and developing knowledge of a wider range of literature in the field to underpin ideas discussed in the sessions.

10. Intertextuality – making connections across texts
Discuss an aspect of your writing that you have been developing in recent weeks and reflect upon the process of writing.
Think about writing spaces and practices and discuss an area of your own writing identity that you intend to explore.
How do you position yourself as a writer and educator.