COD 2018 - P228

Children as word-solvers: Teaching Spelling in the Primary Grades

Primary Heads, coordinators and teachers

1 sessions, start: 14-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
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ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 February 2018 01:30 pm 04:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Primary Heads, coordinators and teachers
Get teachers to:

- understand how teaching phonics and sight words helps with spelling.
- explore different approaches, techniques, activities to develop spelling in children.
- get practical ideas to implement in their own classes.
- Phonics and sight words.
- Spelling: presentation, practice and application.
- High quality dictations.
- Spelling for writing.
- Spelling activities, games and more.
In the course participats will:

- reflect upon the importance of teaching spelling to children.
- see other practitioners in action.
- explore activities, materials and approaches to develop children's spelling.
- take practical ideas.
To be specified.
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