COD 2020 - D245B

Bridges to Critical Reading

All teachers interested in developing critical and skilled readers

6 sessions, start: 05-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2020
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Barberis, Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 7200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 7200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 05 October - 11 October 2020 Online session
2 12 October - 18 October 2020 Online session
3 19 October - 25 October 2020 Online session
4 26 October - 01 November 2020 Online session
5 02 November - 08 November 2020 Online session
6 09 November - 15 November 2020 Online session

Facilitator/s

María Barberis

Maria Barberis is a Mg in Education Management from UNSAM and holds a Diploma in ELT Management from Surrey University. She graduated in 1977 from Catholic University of Argentina as a Teacher of English where she then taught Grammar I & II. In 1982, she co - founded Windmill Institute at CABA. For the past twenty five years she worked at Marin School in San Isidro where she performed different managerial positions such as Head of English Department in Primary and Secondary, IBD Coordinator and School Principal. At the moment, she is a teacher trainer and educator for schools as well as for companies.

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
All teachers interested in developing critical and skilled readers
Get participants to:
- Reflect on how to develop skilled readers.
- Explore and understand what Critical Reading entails.
- Reflect on reading as complex cognitive processes occuring simultaneosly.
- Explore and discuss reading lessons aimed at developing reading comprehension and critical reading skills.
- Cognitive strategies used by effective readers.
- Strategies that empower readers.
- Criteria for selecting reading material.
- Structure of critical reading lessons.
In this six-module online course participants will:
- Participate actively in the different discussion tasks.
- Explore practical ideas to develop students´critical reading skills.
- See other practitioners in action.
- Have the opportunity to apply ideas in their own teaching contexts rights away.
Will be specified in each of the modules.
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