COD 2015 - P183

Working with Literature in Primary School Teachers: A Bodily Experience

Primary teachers

1 sessions, start: 18-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: 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 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 March 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in ELT. Her interests include literature, young learners, CLIL, creativity and critical interculturality. Passionate about art in education, Griselda carries out projects with literature, storytelling, drama, visual arts and creative writing to foster self-expression and creativity in diverse and inclusive English language classrooms. She 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, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the book International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021). Griselda has taught Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques in the English Class and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She regularly works as a consultant for educational institutions, such as language schools (NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK, ELT publishers (Oxford University Press) & libraries. At present, she lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA. In her spare time, Griselda loves dancing, getting lost in bookstores and taking drama classes.
Primary teachers
See the benefits of working with literary texts with children:
- A source of enjoyment and motivation
- Physical involvement
- A holistic use of language
- Creative thinking development

Explore the inclusion of Total Physical Response teaching strategies to foster a bodily experience (blending of mind, body & voice).

Discuss the underlying theoretical framework that combines TPR, Piaget`s developmental stages, Vigotsky`s Zone of Proximal Development & Bruner`s scaffolding.

Think and plan a variety of related activities to work with literary texts in an approach that combines games, interactive reading, reciting, performing, music, dancing & arts & crafts.
We are going to read and work with traditional & contemporary stories, poems, rhymes & popular songs and texts written by contemporary children`s literature writers such as Tony Mitton, Ian Mcmillan, Benjamin Zephaniah, Erwin Morgan, Leo Lionni, Eric Carl, Paul Cookson, Kevin Henkes, Julia Donaldson, Anthony Browne, David Harmer, Shel Silverstein, among others.
Workshop:

A hands-on approach to teaching literature in the classroom in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching strategies to enhance their own practice and carry out some of the activities in class.

Plays, songs, poems and nursery rhymes are the teaching content to experiment with sounds, words and meaning. Stories will be read, mimicked, performed and retold by means of different techniques: posing for pictures, creating a graphic version of the story, designing a story carpet, among others.
Barboni, Silvana, Griselda Beacon & Melina Porto. (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
Brewster, Jean. Et. Al. (2002) The Primary English Teacher`s Guide. Harlow: Penguin English.
Cameron, Lynne. (2001) Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Egan, Kieran. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Grondona White, Cristina y Graciela Moyano. (2004) Storytelling in the EFL Classroom. Words on Words – UK Literature for children and teenagers. British Council Argentina
Lazar, Gillian. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
Maley, Alan. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin
McRae, John. (1991) Literature with a Small “l”. Londres: Macmillan
Pope, Rob. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge
Worthy, Jo. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources
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