COD 2019 - PS217

Integrating Art in our English Class

Primary & Secondary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 06-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2019
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 September 2019 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 & Secondary school teachers
• Discuss the intricate relationship between creative and critical thinking skills in the development of cognitive processes.
• Explore different ways to work with reading, writing and artistic expression to help children have a cognitive, artistic, emotional and physical learning experience.
• Discuss the many benefits of including a variety of teaching materials in the English Class.
• Attempt at writing poetry to develop language awareness and appropriation.
• Think, plan and carry out a variety of creative tasks that ignite imagination and commitment.
In this workshop we will learn about the arts, with the arts and through the arts! We will discuss the rationale of Arts Integration and its relationship with foreign language teaching. The updated version of Bloom´s taxonomy on Critical Thinking (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001) positions “Creating” at the top of the pyramid of cognitive development. It shows that Creativity is multifold, it allows students to express themselves in a myriad of ways and, at the same time, it triggers cognitive mental processes. We will carry out a variety of activities that intend to unleash our own creativity in “artistic” tasks that involve collaboration and commitment!

The teaching material for this session includes poetry and visual art (Picasso’s cubist portraits).
The workshop has a dialogical and interactive approach. Participants will discuss and apply concepts,
work with poetry and visual art, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching
materials and carry out creative tasks.
Beacon, Griselda. „The Discourse of Creativity in ELT.“ En English, N° 11-12, Septiembre de 2016, Moscú: The First Publishing House, 6-9
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2008). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York, NY: Harper Perennial
Egan, Kieran. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
Goldberg, M. (1997). Arts and Learning: An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings. White Plains, NY: Longman.
Lazar, Gillian. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
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
http://ii.library.jhu.edu/2015/01/30/a-guide-to-blooms-taxonomy/
https://carolread.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/c-is-for-c-wheel/
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