COD 2025 - PS290

Face to face - Teaching English effectively at Primary level: the challenge made easier!

Primary teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators

1 sessions, start: 11-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mrs. Grace Bertolini
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 35000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 35000.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 February 2025 09:30 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Grace Bertolini

Grace Bertolini is an experienced EFL- ESL Teacher Educator specialized in Classroom Management, Cooperative Learning, Learning and the Brain, Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Responsive Classrooms and Positive Education at school. Her mother tongue is Spanish and she speaks English, French, Italian and Portuguese and she has studies in Physical Education. She is a Bilingual Facilitator for Peace Education Foundation (USA) and a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom Educator for Positive Discipline Association (USA). She has got an Innovative Education Degree and a Neuro Learning Degree that has allowed her to incorporate tools for brain-compatible learning in a positive, healthy and inclusive educational environment. For more than 40 years she has taught all levels and ages and she has been Head Teacher at several bilingual schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At present, she delivers courses for Asociación Educar de Neurociencias and coaches several Institutions as an Educational Consultant. She has got her own Professional Development Site and Campus and she designs Courses, Workshops and E-books for Preschool, Kindergarten, Primary and High school classes and delivers Professional Development Presentations nationwide and abroad on Social Emotional Learning, Conflict Resolution, Classroom Management and teaching EFL/ESL effectively. Grace is a Life long Learner.
Primary teachers, Head teachers and Coordinators
• Explore different ways of teaching English with effective tools to learn and reinforce the language.
• Learn how to provide students with a safe and supportive classroom environment that facilitates active participation of all learners.
• Share creative strategies and skills to build comprehension while speaking, reading and writing.
• Use Cooperative Learning Structures to regulate interaction between pairs, for team work and to involve the entire class.
• Activate learning implementing Thinking Routines and Graphic Organizers in class to make thinking visible.
• Acquire hands-on ideas, easy to carry out in daily classes.
• How to create an inclusive and positive classroom environment.
• 3 steps to foster an active participation in classroom.
• Using Attentional Brain Breaks to sustain and focus attention.
• Strategies and skills to build comprehension while speaking, reading and writing.
• Vocabulary Development to help students understand meaning: Word Cubing, Word Stripping, Word Banking, Vocabulary Map.
• Predicting and Retelling in class.
• Quick and creative extension activities.
• Going from Reading to Writing.
• Easy Speaking Strategies: Conversation Starters, Time-fillers and Let’s Talk Games.
• Visual Literacy: teaching with images and Videos.
• Practical Cooperative Learning activities for Pair Work and Team Work.
• Thinking Routines & Graphic Organizers to make the complex easy to understand
• S.E.L in class: Social Emotional Activities to foster identity and belonging: effective techniques to connect with your students.
During this interactive session, participants will learn how to provide students with a safe and supportive classroom environment that facilitates active participation of all learners. We will practice effective strategies and skills to build comprehension while speaking, reading and writing and some speaking techniques. We will share 100% practical simple tools and creative techniques to strengthen students’ engagement! If you are teaching English at Primary, don’t miss this session full of ideas and energy!
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