COD 2023 - D854

Webinar - Poetry in the Classroom

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 06-May

Course detail

Year: 2023
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 4500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 4500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 May 2023 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda 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, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Primary school teachers
● Continue developing an attitude of curiosity and openness towards poetry and language learning.
Play with the language at word level (creation), as well as with pronunciation, rhythm and intonation to develop language awareness.

Develop self-expression through artistic tasks to foster language appropriation.
Construct individual voice and cultural identity.
Read, write, recite and perform poems with children to encourage collaborative learning.
Design creative activities such as poetry intervention and turning poems into boxes.
The workshop explores the possibilities poems offer to help children develop language awareness and appropriation through highly interactive and collaborative activities which foster exploration and discovery. In our session, we will work with contemporary children’s poetry and plan creative activities to trigger the learners’ creativity.
We will read a selection of poems written by John Agard, Grace Nichols, Roger McGough, Ian McMillan, Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, David Harmer, Paul Cookson, Benjamin Zephaniah, Simon Armitage, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, among others.
Workshop: The session has a dialogical and interactive approach in which participants discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out the tasks in groups.
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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