COD 2016 - PS158

Poems about Identity: Classroom activities that foster self-expression

Higher Primary & Lower Secondary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 02-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2016
Level: Primary / Secondary
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 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 02 June 2016 05:30 pm 08:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda 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, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Higher Primary & Lower Secondary school teachers
Work with poems in the classroom.

Discover the possibilities poetry gives for self-expression and the construction of individual voice and cultural identity.

Think, plan and practice a variety of classroom activities to help teachers and students:
• Continue developing a positive attitude, of curiosity and openness, towards poetry
• Continue working with contemporary narrative strategies that blur the borders of poetic and narrative genres (juxtaposition, fragmentation, gaps of indeterminacy, intertextuality, etc.)
• Continue developing a knowledge about one’s own culture and (an)other culture(s)
• Intervene texts to write creatively and foster self-expression.
We are going to read and work with the following texts:

• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (novel)

• Wicked World (a collection of poems) & other poems by Benjamin Zephaniah


*We will include other literary texts if time allows
Workshop:

Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas and develop supporting teaching materials
Croft, Steven & Robert Myers. (2004) Exploring Language & Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP

Ferradas Moi, Claudia & Beatriz Pena Lima. (2002) Words on Words. Teaching Contemporary UK Literature. Buenos Aires: 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

- - - , (1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York, Routledge
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