COD 2011 - KP107

Getting beginning writers started

K5 and Lower Primary School Teachers.

3 sessions, start: 03-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 320.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 03 June 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 01 July 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 15 July 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 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.
K5 and Lower Primary School Teachers.
Get teachers to:
- Understand that reading and writing are strongly related.
- Become acquainted with the writing goals for K5 and Lower Primary.
- See writing as a process.
- Learn about each step of the writing process and how to help the beginning writer in each.
- Understand the importance of the feedback they provide.
- Assess beginning writer's pieces appropriately.
- The Reading - Writing Connection.
- Writing Goals for K5 and Lower Primary.
- Characteristics of a strong writing programme.
- Process Writing.
- Effective techniques and useful activities for beginning writers.
- Types of writing to be taught to beginning writers.
- Assessment.
During this course teachers will:
- Read material related to the topic.
- Discuss and analyze cases.
- Watch other professionals in action.
- Reflect upon their own practice.
- Get useful ideas to implement in their classrooms.
- Growing Up Writing: Mini-Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers by Connie Campbell Dierking and Sherra Ann Jones.
- Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers by Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe.
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