COD 2022 - D449

Webinar - Turning Poetry into a Multisensory Experience

Primary teachers

1 sessions, start: 17-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2022
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 2200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 2200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 17 February 2022 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in ELT. Her interests include literature, young learners, CLIL, creativity and critical interculturality. Passionate about art in education, Griselda carries out projects with literature, storytelling, drama, visual arts and creative writing to foster self-expression and creativity in diverse and inclusive English language classrooms. She holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the book International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021). Griselda has taught Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques in the English Class and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She regularly works as a consultant for educational institutions, such as language schools (NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK, ELT publishers (Oxford University Press) & libraries. At present, she lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA. In her spare time, Griselda loves dancing, getting lost in bookstores and taking drama classes.
Primary teachers
-Work with poems for the classroom through all our senses.

-Explore the possibilities poetry offers to help children develop language awareness and appropriation through interactive activities which foster exploration and discovery.
In our session, we will work with contemporary children´s poems to carry out different multisensory activities which will challenge our own creativity. We will read, perform and recite. We will play and move around. We will create poems in 3D (poems in boxes, performative poems) and use concrete material to bring the poems out of the page (e.g. cotton poems). Be ready to engage in tasks that will put you to work actively in collaborative contexts.
Workshop: Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out the tasks in groups.
A selection of poems by John Agard, Grace Nichols, Roger McCough, Ian McMillan, Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, David Farmer, Paul Cookson, Dr. Seuss, Benjamin Zephaniah, Simon Armitage, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, among others
Egan, Kieran. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Lazar, Gillian. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP
Maley, Alan. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin
McRae, John. (1991) Literature with a Small “l”.Londres: Macmillan
Pope, Rob. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge
Worthy, Jo. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources
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