COD 2021 - D445

Active Teaching for Active Learning

For kindergarten and primary school teachers and coordinators

5 sessions, start: 05-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Mercedes Perez Berbain MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 9000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 9000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 05 April - 11 April 2021 Online session
2 12 April - 18 April 2021 Online session
3 19 April - 25 April 2021 Online session
4 26 April - 02 May 2021 Online session
5 03 May - 09 May 2021 Online session

Facilitator/s

Mercedes Perez Berbain

Mercedes Pérez Berbain is an educational consultant and teacher educator. She is a faculty member at Pilgrims Teacher Training (UK) and ESSARP (Argentina), and a reviewer for several international journals. She holds an M.A. in Education with Distinction from Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has written materials for Pearson and OUP, and co-edited for Palgrave Macmillan. Her research interests include leadership in education, inclusion, and young learners.
For kindergarten and primary school teachers and coordinators
- Understand active learning: the need for access and engagement
- Learn strategies to implement active learning
- Reflect on their own learning strategies
- Plan to implement active teaching for active learning
- Active Teaching Strategies for Active Learning
- Learning an additional language
- Diversity and inclusion
- Engagement: what and how
- Shared and individual goals
- Learning Intentions
- Group Dynamics
- The development of linguistic, cognitive, emotional, social and intercultural competences
- Techniques and resources. ICT.
This is an experiential interactive on-line course which invites participants to become aware of how active teaching may impact learning, bearing in mind children’s diversity. There will be plenty of opportunity to discuss, analyse and explore possibility to find ways of reaching all our students. Every participant will have the chance to rethink and enhance their teaching skills in collaboration with their colleagues. There will be zoom sessions on the following dates and times: 8, 15, 22 & 29 April, 6 May (6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.)
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