COD 2009 - D045

Literacy Acquisiton in Primary Schools

Primary school teachers working in bilingual school.

4 sessions, start: 05-May

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A distancia
Facilitator/s: Ms. Inés Stefani
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 220.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 05 May 2009 Online session
2 12 May 2009 Online session
3 19 May 2009 Online session
4 26 May 2009 Online session

Facilitator/s

Inés Stefani

Inés Stefani is a Uruguayan teacher who graduated from "Magisterio" in 1980 and since then has taught at bilingual schools. In 1989 she graduated as a Reading Recovery teacher in New Zealand. She has worked and studied for 4 years in that country. She later completed a Bachelors of Education in Teaching, and a Masters Degree in Teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as well as a Certificate in School Middle Management, at UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand. Inés has been doing consultancy work, in the field of literacy acquisition, nationally and internationally, especially in Brazil and Argentina since 2003. She was Academic Principal from 2005 to 2010 and Head of School from 2011 to 2017 at Woodlands School, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She has just recently retired from that job, after 37 years of teaching, and is back doing consultancy work.She is currently teaching at Universidad de Montevideo at Magisterio Bilingual.
Primary school teachers working in bilingual school.
- Organizing and using materials.
- Develop a self-extending system in students.
- Develop users of the language.
- Teaching and learning all aspects of the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Understanding and using efficient models of learning: deep learning as opposed to shallow learning.
Course Syllabus
You will have 1 month to complete this course.

• Lesson 1: What is language?
Vygotsky. Language Development.
Oral language.How to promote oral language acquisition. Listening and speaking.
Developing vocabulary, structure and pronunciation.
Nursery Rhymes, songs and stories

• Lesson 2: Reading.
What is reading? Reading strategies. How to run a rich reading programme.

• Lesson 3: Writing.
Genres, topics, conventions. The writing process. Reasons for writing.
Developing writing. Stages. Writing confrerences. Editing. Looking at writing (assessing). The 6 traits in writing.

Lesson 4: Effective Learning Models. Putting it all together.
Online course.
Soon to be posted.
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