COD 2007 - P044

ESSARP goes to St. Alban's College: Helping Teachers Become Storytellers

Primary Teachers.

1 sessions, start: 08-Nov

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: AR002 - St. Alban's College
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cristina Thomson de Grondona White
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 40.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 November 2007 04:15 pm 07:15 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cristina Thomson de Grondona White

María Cristina Thomson de Grondona White is Teacher of English (ISP Rosario), Drama teacher (Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático), and holds the National Diploma of Children's Literature, Christchurch C.E. (New Zealand). She's taught the subject at Escuela Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía B. de Spangenberg"; IES Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", and at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Cristina contributed as co-author for Good Times Primary English and Stories, Richmond Santillana; "Literature in Language Teaching" for the Licenciatura Educación at Universidad Virtual de Quilmes, and "Storytelling" for the British Council. Her children stories published by Alfaguara Infantil were recommended by the Barahone Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Cal. State University, San Marcos, U.S.A.; her research on storytelling and EFL learning appeared in Talespinner Journal of Research. An expert oral storyteller, Cristina delights in sharing stories with audiences of all ages and the tools of the art with colleagues and students.
Primary Teachers.
Teachers will be able to: - Develop basic aural/oral story-telling skills. - Explore hands-on tools for story-telling. - Exploit creative tasks in pairs/groups for storytelling. - Use personal experience as resource material for story-telling. - Build up confidence through affirmative tasks. - Try out their natural skills at storytelling.
- Storytelling basics. - Creating stories from personal experiences. - Working on images. - Getting stories off the page. - Samples from the folk tradition: a collection to choose from. - Finding one's own voice: telling a brief, simple story.
- Presentation by co-ordinator. - Activities performed by participants to build confidence in storytelling. - Development of resources for storytelling. - Exploitation of resources in the telling of a story by participants. The co-ordinator will provide participants with a collection of materials from the folk tradition.
- Garvie, E. (1990) Story as Vehicle: Teaching English to Young Children. England: Multilingual Matters. - McDonald, M. (1993) The Storyteller´s Start-Up Book. New York: August House, Inc. - Morgan, J. & Rinvolucri, M. (1983) Once Upon a Time: Using Stories in the Language Classsroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Pellowski, A. ( 1984) The Story Vine. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. - Taylor, E. (2000) Using Folktales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://teacher.scholastic.com http://www.storyarts.org http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/storylinks.html
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