COD 2015 - S533

Making Literary Thinking Visible (IGCSE & AS Literature examinations)

IGCSE and AS Literature teachers

1 sessions, start: 11-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 June 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
IGCSE and AS Literature teachers
Having “Making Thinking Visible” by R. Ritchhart, M. Church, and K. Morrinson as a point of departure, in the course we will:

- Prove the relevance and possible effectiveness of Visible Thinking and Thinking Routines for the preparation of IGCSE and AS Literature

- Explore ways of adapting this approach for IGCSE and AS literature classes

- To provide IGCSE and AS literature teachers with useful tools to enhance students’ literary analytical skills and improve their production

- To reflect upon the importance of developing thinking skills in our students for the purposes of IGCSE and AS Literature examinations
- Main concepts of Visible Thinking and Thinking Routines

- Purposes of this educational approach and the objectives of IGCSE and AS Literature examinations

- Examples of thinking routines applied to literature classes

- Thinking routines adapted to enhance our students’ literary skills
- Presentation of the main concepts of Visible Thinking and Thinking Routines

- Discussion of the relevance of the approach bearing in mind Cambridge examinations as the objective of the classes

- Participants will be presented with material that has been used with students to exemplify the ideas presented

- Participants will be given ideas and discuss ways of profiting from this approach
- IGCSE and AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Half of a Yellow Sun. London, Harper Perennial, 2007.

- Bolt, Robert, A Man for All Seasons. London, Bloomsbury, 2006.

- Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Nervous Conditions. New York, Seal Press, 2002.

- Ritchhart, R., Church, M., Morrinson, K., Hacer el pensamiento visible. Buenos Aires, Paidós, 2014.

- Selden, R., Widdowson, P., Brooker, P., A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Harlow, Pearson, 2005.

- Spielgeman, Art, Maus, A Survivor’s Tale. Pantheon Books, 1991.

- Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie. New Diresctions Paper Book, 1999.
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