COD 2017 - KP313

Developing Learners' Literacies: Which Literacies and How?

Kindergarten and Primary Heads, coordinators and teachers

2 sessions, start: 07-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 07 August 2017 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 28 August 2017 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.
Kindergarten and Primary Heads, coordinators and teachers
Get participants to:

- understand the relevance of pluralizing the term literacy.
- understand the different literacies we need to develop in our learners.
- explore the different literacies and how to best develop them in our learners.
- include activities, tasks and materials to teach and develop each and every literacy and their corresponding skills.
- Literacy and Literacies.
- Why different literacies and their importance to our learners.
- Information literacy, media literacy, network literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, traditional lieracy, emotional literacy and more.
- Tasks, materials and resources to develop literacies.
In the session teachers will:

- read abut the topic.
- see other practitioners in action.
- reflect upon theri practice.
- explore new concepts.
- explore materials, activities and tasks to develop the different literacies in students.
To be specified.
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