Black Swans
“The
Black Swans programme is a great way to get a much better insight into creative
teaching and creative partnership working.” 2009-10 Participant.
A
paid professional learning programme for new creative practitioners wanting to
work in education.
Due
to the success of the 09-10 Black Swans programme, Black Country Creative
Partnerships and Creative Alliance are running the programme again.
The
programme offers a paid training opportunity for people who would like to work
in education as a creative practitioner.
Practitioners
may be chefs, mathematicians, poets, visual artists, drama workers,
technicians: in fact anyone who wants to
share their unique practice with children and young people, and their teachers
and families.
At
one time everyone in Britain
thought swans were always white until someone went to Australia
Well
if you are, then the Black Swans professional learning programme could be just
what you need to develop the knowledge and skills to work within education.
As part of the Black Swans professional
learning programme you will receive:
•10
days work in a Creative Partnerships school to devise, develop and deliver a
project in line with the school’s enquiry question and an all inclusive fee of
£1000 to do this.*
•Five
days professional learning programme made of seminars, workshops and action learning sets led by experts in creative
learning.
•Mentoring
by some of the best creative practitioners and agents.
•The
opportunity to contribute to a promotional catalogue.
*The
enquiry question is the purpose for why a school is undertaking a Creative Partnerships programme
Here’s
what people on last years programme said:
“The
Black Swan's Programme has given me the confidence to… literally let children
go, give them a chance to discover things for themselves, decide when it is
appropriate to teach and when it is best to step back and facilitate learning.”
“My
Black Swan experience has clarified for me how I can adapt my practice to
ensure that the individual needs of each pupil / school are met.”
To apply
please send electronically:
•A
C.V. of no more than 2 sides of A4
•A
letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 outlining why you want to work in
education,
what
you can offer, and any experience you may have.
Please
do not exceed the 500 word limit and only electronically submitted application
will be considered. Please make sure the
CV and letter are in one attachment. If
you want to send images of your work one additional page of digital images can
be included in the attachment. Hard copies or multiple attachments with an
electronic application will be discounted.
To: Vicky Goodwin at Creative Alliance
Email:
vicky@creativealliance.org.uk
Deadline:
10.00am Monday 4th October
Interviews
will be held from Wednesday 6th October at Creative Alliance’s offices at The
Custard Factory, Gibb Street ,
Birmingham , B9 4AA
The
dates for all the seminar sessions are to be confirmed but we will start with a
whole day induction on Saturday 23rd October at Creative Alliance’s training
room at The Custard Factory.
At
this day you will have the opportunity to find out about the schools
participating in the scheme and to indicate the type of school you might like
to work in: nursery, junior, special needs or secondary and whether in a rural
or urban location. There are 10 schools participating in the scheme and
individual preferences cannot be guaranteed.
You
will need to have or willing to get an enhanced CRB.
The
dates of the work in schools will be arranged to suit individual practitioners/
schools.
After
the initial induction day, you will be informed of the dates of the rest of the
programmed across the autumn and spring terms.
This will include at least one other Saturday and evenings.
For
further information about the programmed please contact Noel Dunne
07793
200 701 / noel@creativealliance.org.uk,
or, noel@jobdunne.com
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