COD 2020 - PS236

Working with Drama Techniques and Literature in the English Class

Primary & secondary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 17-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2020
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 1200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 17 February 2020 01:30 pm 04:30 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
• Work with literary texts from a performative perspective.

• Discuss the impact of developing creative and critical thinking skills to enhance the foreign language learning process.

• Explore different ways to work with literature and artistic expression to help children have a cognitive, artistic, emotional and physical learning experience.

• Participate in interactive, performative tasks.

• Think, plan and carry out a variety of creative tasks that involve performativity & literature.
In this workshop we will work with Drama Techniques and literature in the English Class. We will carry out performative activities in collaborative contexts that create room for children & adolescents to express themselves in English. We will introduce literary texts that can be easily performed such as stories, poems, rhymes and plays. We will explore how performative tasks with literature help students develop their own voice, artistic awareness and collaboration.
The workshop has a dialogical and interactive approach. Participants will discuss and apply concepts, work with literature, carry out performative tasks, brainstorm creative teaching ideas & develop supporting teaching materials.
- 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
- Farmer, David. (2011) Learning through Drama in the Primary Years. www.dramaresource.com
- Lazar, Gillian. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP
- Read, Carol (2007) 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom. Londres: Macmillan Pub. Lted
- Slattery, Mary (2008) Teaching with Bear. Oxford: Oxford UP
- Wilson, Ken. (2008) Drama and Improvisation. Oxford: Oxford UP
- Worthy, Jo. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources
- Wright, Andrew. (1995) Storytelling with Children. Series Ed. Alan Maley. Oxford: Oxford UP
----. (1997) Creating Stories with Children. Oxford: Oxford UP
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