COD 2025 - D1115

Webinar - The challenge of teaching Kids: let my way inspire your own

For Kindergarten and Preschool teachers, Helpers, Early Primary grades teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators.

4 sessions, start: 15-Apr

Please enrol before Thursday, April 10th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: Spanish
Status: In progress
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Sra. Grace Bertolini
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 120000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 120000.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 April 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 22 April 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 29 April 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 13 May 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Grace Bertolini

Creadora y Directora de Educar para el Bienestar & Life Long Education, espacio para la Formación y el Desarrollo Profesional Docente. Por más de 35 años se ha desempeñado como docente y directivo de Inglés en Escuelas Bilingües. Es Facilitadora Internacional Certificada de Peace Education Foundation (Estados Unidos) y Educadora Certificada Internacional de Disciplina Positiva para Positive Discipline Association (Estados Unidos). Diplomada en Neurociencias (Universidad de Belgrano) y en Innovación Educativa (Universidad Siglo XXI), se ha capacitado en Estados Unidos, Inglaterra y España en Resolución Constructiva de Conflictos en la Escuela, Educación Socio-emocional, Aprendizaje Cerebro-compatible, Inteligencias Múltiples, Aprendizaje Cooperativo, Aulas Receptivas, Disciplina Positiva e Innovación Educativa. Sus estudios en Educación Física, la han llevado a incorporar en sus clases, técnicas basadas en el Movimiento, el Juego, la Creatividad y la Motivación, aspectos indispensables para todo aprendizaje constructivo. Complementó su formación con idiomas como el Inglés, Francés, Portugués e Italiano. Su formación en Neuro-aprendizaje, le permitió además incluir herramientas para un entorno educativo cerebro-compatible, donde los estilos de aprendizaje, las destrezas y competencias y el pensamiento crítico son también valorados en el proceso de enseñar-facilitar-aprender. Actualmente es Disertante y creadora de Cursos para la Asociación Educar de Neurociencias para el Desarrollo Humano (Argentina). Sus Cursos y Talleres se caracterizan por el diseño y realización de recursos didácticos y educativos para el uso práctico en el aula
For Kindergarten and Preschool teachers, Helpers, Early Primary grades teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators.
- Explore different ways of teaching English to Very Young Learners.

- Learn how to provide students with a safe and supportive classroom environment that facilitates active participation of all learners.

- Share effective techniques, creative strategies and attractive visual resources for immediate use in daily lessons.

- Learn how to interact at Circle Time and Story Time.

- Activate learning implementing the use of rhymes, songs, games, puppets, flashcards and posters.

- Foster Social Emotional Learning with kids.

- Acquire hands-on ideas, easy to carry out in daily classes.
WEBINAR 1:

· How to teach English to Very Young Learners.

· How to create an inclusive and positive classroom environment.

· Ideas to foster an active participation in your classroom.

· Classroom Management: teacher’s language, establishing daily routines, behavior in class.

· Using Attentional Brain Breaks to sustain and focus attention.

· Planning: annual curriculum, monthly topic, weekly lessons.

· Circle Time: using Interactive Reference Charts to talk about the Weather, to call the role, to use the calendar, and choose Helpers, and share the Agenda of the day.

· Create your own routine songs.

· The use of Flashcards, Posters and Realia in class.

· Tips and ideas when using puppets with kids.

· Designing your own hand-made resources.


WEBINAR 2:


· The importance of Play & Games in class.

· Dramatic Play: the delight of “make believe” and become another person!

· Using Props for pretended situations.

· Using simple Role-plays in the Dramatic Play Centre.

· Criteria for using Games.

· How do I set up a game? Demonstrations and trial runs.

· Inside Games & Outside Games.

· Hand-made Resources for Games: Pocket Cube, Mystery Box, Fortune Teller Paper Game, Roll a monster and others.

· Card and Board Games (Bingo. Puzzles, Memory, Dominoes, Spin the wheel)

· Matching Mats & File-folder Games.

· The magic of Rhymes & Chants.

· MUSIC & SONGS in your Class: singing with visual props.



WEBINAR 3:

· STORY TIME: effective and creative ideas for using Stories with Very Young Learners.

· Why use stories activities in your class? How do I choose the right kind of story?

· Story Telling & Story Reading.

· Quick and creative Extension Activities: Story Cubes, Story Tins, Stories in a Box, Story Necklaces, Canned Stories.

· Using Puppets, Masks, Headbands and simple costumes.

· Making hand-made books: Flip-flop Books, Triaramas, Zig-Zag Books, Step Books, Fan Books, Circle Books.

· Big Books: How to make a class-created Big Book.

· Using Interactive Boards to retell a story: Pocket Charts, Magnet Boards, Felt Board, Roll a Story.

· A Storytime Area: ideas for organizing materials, book storage and a Class Book Corner.

· School-home connection: “Our Book Day”.

· A surprise: Listen and Mime a Story



WEBINAR 4:

· S.E.L: Social Emotional Learning & Peace-making in class.

· Creating an inclusive and positive classroom environment.

· SELF – AWARENESS: Activities to foster identity.

· Identifying one’s emotions - Recognizing Strengths & Limitations.

· Talking about your name, your preferences, your family, your friends.

· All about me Projects. Self-esteem stories.

· Character Strengths: working with Gratitude, Kindness, Optimism, Perseverance.

· SELF- MANAGEMENT: Identifying emotions in a meaningful context.

· Quality Circle Time to deal with emotions, feelings, behaviours and conflict.

· Effective ways to cope with emotions: Mood meter Sign – Emotional Check In -

· Self- regulation Strategies: Positive Time Out & our Calm down Place.

· Mindfulness Breathing Exercises and some Yoga activities for kids.

· SOCIAL – AWARENESS: Showing understanding and Empathy for others – Appreciating Diversity and Respect. Building a Sense of Belonging- Social Skills kids need to learn.

· RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Cooperative Work: Pair and Team work –Effective and assertive Communication – Apologizing - “I - Statements”

· RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING & CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Identifying problems – Analysing situations – Reflecting- Involving students in setting Classroom Rules – Managing Behaviour.

· Effective techniques to connect with your students.

· School- Home Connection.

· How to design Open Classes.

· Assessing Progress.
During these 4 interactive On line sessions, participants will learn how to provide students with a safe and supportive classroom environment that facilitates active participation of all learners.

We will share effective ideas to design hand-made resources with inexpensive materials for immediate use in daily lessons to provide both variety to the class activity and linguistic relevance. They will also learn effective techniques to interact at Circle Time with Reference Charts and Interactive Boards and how to use Visual Resources such as Puppets and Realia. We will share tips on how to deal with Games, Rhymes, Chants and Songs and creative ideas for Story Time and Open Classes. We will share 100% practical simple tools and effective techniques to strengthen students’ engagement! If you are teaching English at Kindergarten and Early Primary Grades, don’t miss this On Line Course full of ideas and energy to achieve excellence with the little ones!
To be specify and shared during the sessions.
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