COD 2016 - P200

Primary in Literatureland: Let the magic start!

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 15-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2016
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 15 February 2016 09:30 am 12:30 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 school teachers
• Discuss the role literature plays in the life of children: a source of enjoyment, language development and physical involvement that help children boost their imagination and appropriate the foreign language through reading and playing
• See the close relationship between creative thinking and critical thinking
• Help children Develop critical & creative thinking skills
• Think, plan and carry out a variety of related activities to work with literature in the classroom: games, interactive reading, performing, crafts
The workshop explores the possibilities Literatureland offers to help children develop their critical thinking and creative thinking skills through the arts. Just like little Alice, we will jump into contemporary children´s books and carry out different activities that will challenge our own creativity. Be ready to engage in tasks that will put you to work actively in collaborative contexts.

The children´s book selection for our session includes:
There are No Cats in This Book (2010) Viviane Schwarz (author & illustrator)
This Book Just Ate My Dog (2014) Richard Byrne (author & illustrator)
Don´t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! (2003) Mo Willems (author & illustrator)
Exclamation Mark (2013) Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Author) & Tom Lichtenheld (Illustrator)
Don't Read This Book! (2010) Jill Lewis (author) & Deborah Allwright (illustrator)
Interrupting Chicken (2011) David Ezra Stein (author & illustrator)
The Smartest Giant in Town (2003) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
Room on a Broom (2003) Julia Donaldson (author) & Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
Workshop: Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out the tasks in groups.
- 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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