COD 2009 - P095

Filling the Linguistic Pool

Primary school teachers.

2 sessions, start: 25-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Inés Stefani
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Non affiliate
ARS 90.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 25 February 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 26 February 2009 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Inés Stefani

Inés Stefani is a Uruguayan teacher who graduated from "Magisterio" in 1980 and since then has taught at bilingual schools. In 1989 she graduated as a Reading Recovery teacher in New Zealand. She has worked and studied for 4 years in that country. She later completed a Bachelors of Education in Teaching, and a Masters Degree in Teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as well as a Certificate in School Middle Management, at UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand. Inés has been doing consultancy work, in the field of literacy acquisition, nationally and internationally, especially in Brazil and Argentina since 2003. She was Academic Principal from 2005 to 2010 and Head of School from 2011 to 2017 at Woodlands School, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She has just recently retired from that job, after 37 years of teaching, and is back doing consultancy work.She is currently teaching at Universidad de Montevideo at Magisterio Bilingual.
Primary school teachers.
"Reading, writing, speaking and listening, while different in many aspects, are but parallel manifestations of the same vital human function – the mind's effort to create meaning". (Brian Cambourne)
For children to be able to read and write, first they need to have a good command of oral language. Then, they would be able to recognise the words as they read them, holding a mental concept for at least most of the words encountered.
Children need words (vocabulary) and knowledge of how these words operate together (structure) to be able to write.
The linguistic pool is the collective knowledge of language items: vocabulary, structure, spelling, and genre.
This course aims at helping teachers learn to do this effectively within the primary school setting.

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