COD 2009 - K060

Science in the Kindergarten Classroom: The hands-on Approach

Kindergarten teachers and first form teachers.

2 sessions, start: 19-Sep

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
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Non affiliate
ARS 110.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 19 September 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 03 October 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 first form teachers.

Get teachers to:
- Discuss the Kindergarten Science curriculum: expectations, contents.
- See the importance of working on science in the early years.
- Understand the importance of hands-on learning and how children benefit from it.
- See the hands-on approach in action.
- Get ideas to implement in their classrooms.
- The Kindergarten Science Curriculum.
- Kindergarten Science Contents.
- The Hands-on Approach: what is it, why implement it, resources.
- Hands-on classroom activities.
- Reading material.
- Viewing videos and clips.
- Discussing expectations and contents to be taught.
- Working in groups: discussing, analysing, defining.
- Bite-Sized Science: Activities for Children in 15 Minutes or Less by John H. Falk and Kristi S. Rosenberg.
- Exploring Science in Early Childhood Education by Karen K. Lind.
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