ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the principles involved in teaching with the arts. It describes feedback, some of the challenges artists have encountered, and how participants are assessed. Any teaching session that uses the creative arts needs a structure which contains practical exercises based on arts resources, to enable learners to participate, to develop ideas and try them out. Engagement occurs if the resource is appropriate, interesting and presented with enthusiasm and passion. This enables learners to begin to cross the bridge into the world of creativity, to start thinking in an open and imaginative way, and to release ideas which foster more creativity. The learner's feedback may be a defensive reaction to an unknown world, an attitude which the facilitator must penetrate sensitively, providing some intermediate safe areas for the journey. The facilitator will also have appreciated more about that person's learning needs.
