COD 2021 - D557

An inclusive approach in ELT: teaching so ALL children learn

Kindergarten and primary school teachers and coordinators

3 sessions, start: 09-Aug

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 5400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 5400.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Schedule
1 09 August - 15 August 2021 Online session
2 16 August - 22 August 2021 Online session
3 23 August - 29 August 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.
Kindergarten and primary school teachers and coordinators
For participants to:

- Develop their knowledge and understanding of inclusive pedagogy from a critical socio-cultural perspective.
- Critically reflect on and evaluate their own teaching.
- Build up their knowledge of active learning.
- Implement inclusive strategies in their own practice.
- Diversity and inclusion
- Inclusive strategies
- Critical pedagogy
- YL learning an additional language
- Picturebooks
- Differentiation
- Knowledge construction
- Conversational dialogue
- The mobilisation of skills
- 21st century skills: communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and confidence.
This is an experiential and interactive on-line course which invites participants to become aware of how inclusive their teaching is as well as having the chance to rethink and enhance their teaching skills in collaboration and interaction with other colleagues. There will be plenty of opportunity to discuss, analyse and explore possibility to find ways of making our teaching inclusive to all children.
The course offers 3 self-paced modules interspersed with a weekly 60-minute zoom interactive session, scheduled on Wednesdays Aug 11, 18 & 25 from 6 to 7 pm. Dates are 9 - 15 August; 16 - 22 August and 23 - 29 August.
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