COD 2010 - KP81

Enjoying Literature with Young Learners

Kindergarten and early Primary teachers.

1 sessions, start: 26-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: Kindergarten / Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 65.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 26 April 2010 05:30 pm 08:00 pm

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.
Kindergarten and early Primary teachers.
Think, plan and practice a variety of classroom activities to work with literature in the classroom:
• Verbal and non-verbal responses to a literary text.
• Illustrations.
• Linguistic and literary devices found in short stories.
We are going to read and work with the following stories:
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Leoni.
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
• More Pants by Giles Andreae Illustrator Nick Sharratt.
* We will include other literary texts if time allows.
Workshop. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas and develop supporting teaching materials.
- Barboni, S., Beacon, G. & Porto, M. (2008) Diseño Curricular de la Dirección Provincial de Educación Primaria, Subsecretaría de Educación, Dirección General de Cultura y Educación del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- Egan, K. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Grondona White, C. y Moyano, G. (2004) Storytelling in the EFL Classroom. Words on Words – UK Literature for children and teenagers. British Council Argentina.
- Lazar, G. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
- Maley, A. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin.
- McRae, J. (1991) Literature with a Small "l". Londres: Macmillan.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge.
- Worthy, J. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources.
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