COD 2019 - PS201

Creativity & Literature in the English Class

Primary and Secondary Teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 19-Feb

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Ciclo: 2019
Nivel: Primaria / Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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Sesiones

Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 19 Febrero 2019 01:30 pm 04:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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 and Secondary Teachers
- Bring the traditional tales and rhymes to the students’ contemporary world.
- Work with poems and stories.
- Play with textual intervention: Transform and integrate the Arts (songs, dance and performance).
- Traditional tales and rhymes and their contemporary versions.
- Arts Integration: Dialogue between visual art and poems.
The workshop has a dialogical and interactive approach.

Participants will discuss and apply concepts, work with literary texts for children and teens, brainstorm creative teaching ideas, develop supporting teaching materials and carry out tasks in groups.

Participants will give a try at creative writing and performance.
- Egan, Kieran. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
- 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
- Nodelman, Perry. (2003) The Pleasures of Children’s Literature. Boston: Allyn & Bacon
- Pope, Rob. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge
- 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
- Wright, Andrew. (1995) Storytelling with Children. Series Ed. Alan Maley. Oxford: Oxford UP
----. (1997) Creating Stories with Children. Oxford: Oxford UP
- Worthy, Jo. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources
21st Century Skills Map. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/21stCenturySkillsMap/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf
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