COD 2021 - D592

Students as Makers: Maker-centered Learning in Action

Primary and Secondary School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers

4 sessions, start: 08-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: 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 08 September - 14 September 2021 Online session
2 15 September - 21 September 2021 Online session
3 22 September - 28 September 2021 Online session
4 29 September - 05 October 2021 Online session

Facilitator/s

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.
Primary and Secondary School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers
Get participants to:

- Explore the benefits of Maker-centered Learning
- Explore and understand teacher and student roles in Maker-centered Learning
- Discuss, analyze and understand what Maker-cenetered Learning looks like
- Get practical ideas on how to take Maker-centered Learning to their teaching contexts.
- What is a Maker?
- What is Maker-centered Learning?
- Benefits of Maker-centered Learning.
- Teaching and Learning in Maker-centered Learning.
- Choice, intention and action.
- Challenges and Puzzles.
In this four-module distance course participants will:

- read, watch and analyze material.
- watch other professionals in action.
- participate in forums with their own ideas, contributions and responses to the material.
- reflect upon their practice.
To be specified.
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