COD 2009 - K052

The Teaching of Content Areas in Kindergarten

Kindergarten teachers and teacher trainees.

11 sessions, start: 14-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: Kindergarten
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 660.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 March 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 21 March 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 28 March 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
4 04 April 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
5 18 April 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
6 25 April 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
7 09 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
8 16 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
9 30 May 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
10 06 June 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
11 20 June 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm

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.
Kindergarten teachers and teacher trainees.
When attending the course, teachers will:

- Get acquainted with basic knowledge about CBI and CLIL.
- Learn about the teaching of content through language.
- Handle specific terminology and appropriate materials for the different content areas.
- Assess the different content areas using different assessment tools.
- Put both activities and resources into practice.
- Reflect upon their practice.
- Language through Literature: Literary analysis, Literature circles, Reading comprehension, storytelling.
- English language teaching: Grammar, vocabulary, the four macro skills.
- Social Sciences through Language: Contents and Curriculum for Kindergarten and the lower forms.
- Science through Language: the hands-on approach. Contents and curriculum for Kindergarten and the lower forms.
- The arts through Language: music, craft, drama.
- Physical education through language: the role of playing in ELT. TPR.
- Assessment for learning: different types of assessment.
- Final evaluation.
Teachers attending the course will:
- Do activities.
- Discuss.
- Deal with real problems.
- Plan and create activities.
- Debate.
- Interact and exchange experiences.
- Analyse cases.
- Assess and self-assess.

At the end of the course, teachers can choose to obtain a certificate of attendance or sit for an exam to obtain credits (GCBA).
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