Training for International School Librarians on how to be Creative
- Created By Sarah Pavey
- Posted on May 21st, 2025
Programme Overview
Topic
To empower school librarians to think creatively in their role, apply creativity in everyday library tasks, and become catalysts for creativity in the wider school community.
Delivery Model
Face-to-Face
What is Included
Certificate of attendance
Course material (if applicable)
Cost
AED 1320 plus 5% VAT (per delegate)
Registration
Please fill out the booking form to register.
If you would like bespoke in-school training, please contact Paola (paola@infinitelearning.ae) for more information.
Course Details
Date of Training
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Time
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Venue
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Booking Deadline
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School librarians and library staff primary, middle or secondary
- Understand key concepts and theories of creativity and how they apply to the role of the school librarian.
- Explore and practice a range of creative thinking strategies that can be applied to common school library tasks and challenges.
- Experiment with innovative approaches to problem-solving, resource curation, and student engagement within the school library context.
- Develop confidence and strategies to encourage creative thinking in others, including students, colleagues, and the wider school community.
- Identify opportunities for creativity in their daily work and apply creative strategies to enhance their practice.
- Design and implement at least one creative library-based initiative tailored to their school’s context.
- Facilitate and model creative thinking techniques with students and staff, becoming an advocate for a more innovative school culture.
- Reflect critically on their own creative development and articulate the value of creativity as a core professional skill.
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This course is designed specifically for school librarians working in international settings who want to step beyond routine and infuse their practice with fresh, imaginative thinking. Whether you’re already confident in your creative skills or feel you’ve lost touch with that part of yourself, this course will reignite your curiosity, resourcefulness and joy in your work. The course will offer opportunities to network and share and discuss ideas ensuring take away initiatives you can put into practice immediately.
By attending this course
What You’ll Gain Personally:
- New techniques to generate and develop original ideas
- Tools to approach challenges in fresh, imaginative ways
- Confidence in your ability to take creative risks
- A chance to reconnect with your own creative instincts
- An energising, hands-on experience with like-minded professionals
What Your School Will Gain:
- A librarian who leads with innovation and models creativity
- Richer, more engaging library programmes and resources
- Increased collaboration across departments with creative input from the library
- A ripple effect: as you apply and share what you learn, you’ll help build a more vibrant, risk-friendly, and imaginative school culture
This face-to-face course is highly interactive, offering personal attention, peer learning, and plenty of practical inspiration. You’ll leave not just with ideas, but with a tangible action plan and toolkit to start making change right away.
| DAY 1 | |
| 8:45 | Registration and refreshments |
| 9:00 | The Power of Creativity in the Library Understand what creativity is (e.g., divergent thinking, innovation, lateral thinking) and why it matters in education and school librarianship. Theoretical aspects through Torrance, Dweck and Guilford. Reflect on personal and professional creative identity and begin practicing creative thinking strategies. Plenary |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Think Divergently Apply creative strategies to everyday library tasks and programmes using techniques such as SCAMPER. Experiment with idea generation techniques and explore new ways to solve familiar problems. How to be creative under constraints (e.g., budget, space, teaching time). Plenary |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Spreading Creative Confidence in Your School Build strategies for embedding creativity into library culture and explore how to encourage creative skills in staff and students to become a creative leader. Embedding creativity into collaboration. Developing a personal action plan. |
| 15:30 | End |
