Equip your students with essential 21st-century skills by integrating creativity into your teaching. These courses are designed to help educators across all levels understand the power of creativity, why it matters, and how to nurture it in any subject.
Learn how to inspire and assess creativity, leverage Adobe’s powerful tools, and connect with the vibrant Adobe Creative Educator Community. With insights from expert educators and Adobe’s own creative team, you’ll transform your teaching to ignite creativity in your students.
ACE Level 1: Creativity for all
Discover how to harness the power of creativity in your teaching to equip students with essential digital skills. This level 1 course guides educators through understanding creativity, its importance, and how to foster it across all disciplines and educational levels.
You’ll receive practical tips on cultivating and assessing creativity, explore how Adobe’s tools can enhance learning and connect with the Adobe Creative Educator Community. Learn from expert educators, including Adobe’s creative team, and transform your teaching approach to spark creativity in any content area.
Complete the course by submitting a brief assignment to earn a digital badge and a certificate for 3 hours of professional learning.
Learning objectives
- Understand what creativity looks like, and why it’s important for every learner.
- Know how to recognise and develop creativity in all learners.
- Support your students’ learning and creative confidence in any subject.
- Leverage Adobe’s creative tools.
- Keep learning and engaging with the Adobe Creative Educator Community.
ACE Level 2: Design Your Creative Class
Elevate your teaching by integrating creativity into your curriculum and empowering students with key digital (21st-century) skills. This course helps you become a creative thinker and apply instructional design principles to craft innovative, engaging learning materials for any subject.
Learn how to design learning objectives that infuse creativity across subjects and see inspiring examples of creative outcomes. Discover how various Adobe tools can support your goals, regardless of your technical skills and tap into Adobe’s extensive online resources and Creative Educator Community.
Complete the course by submitting a brief assignment to earn a digital badge and a certificate for 3 hours of professional learning.
Learning objectives
- Foster creative learning outcomes and sequence creativity in your class.
- Provide peer and teacher feedback on creativity.
- Foster a diverse and inclusive learning environment for all students.
- Encourage sharing and communication through creative learning.
- Plan for creativity through online or distance learning.
- Keep learning and engaging with the Adobe Creative Educator Community.
This course also has a partner course, ‘Design Your Creative Course’.
* If you’re working towards achieving your Adobe Creative Educator Level 2 badge, you only need to complete one of these courses.
ACE Level 2: Design Your Creative Course
Prepare your students with essential 21st-century skills by integrating creativity into your teaching. This course is tailored for those working in higher education, empowering you to apply instructional design principles to create innovative, engaging learning materials across any subject.
Gain insights from expert educators and creatives on designing learning objectives that infuse creativity into your courses and explore real-world examples of creative learning outcomes. Learn how Adobe’s tools can enhance teaching, regardless of your technical expertise and connect with Adobe’s online resources and the Creative Educator Community.
Complete the course by submitting a brief assignment to earn a LinkedIn-ready digital badge and a certificate for 3 hours of professional learning.
Learning objectives
- Foster creative learning outcomes and sequence creativity in your course.
- Provide peer and teacher feedback on creativity.
- Foster a diverse and inclusive learning environment for all students.
- Encourage sharing and communication through creative learning.
- Plan for creativity through online or distance learning.
- Keep learning and engaging with the Adobe Creative Educator Community.
This course also has a partner course, ‘Design Your Creative Class’, which is aimed at educators working in HE.
* If you’re working towards achieving your Adobe Creative Educator Level 2 badge, you only need to complete one of these courses.
ACE Level 3: Design Your Creative Course
For those who have already completed their level 1 and 2 qualifications, we have exciting news! A new level 3.
The Adobe Creative Educator Innovator program is an application-only community for those who have been accepted based on evidence of innovative ways they are leading other educators and students to be lifelong creators.
Completing ACE levels 1 & 2 is a prerequisite for the ACE Innovator program and applications for 2025 will open in February.
We will keep you informed when this window opens and how to apply.
Contact Us
If you would like to discuss any of the above in more detail, please contact the Digital Learning Specialists, who can provide coaching and mentoring sessions.
They are contactable at adobehelp@tees.ac.uk