COD 2015 - S534

Improving our game: Using games to prepare IGCSE and AS Literature

IGCSE and AS Literature teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 10-Sep

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Ciclo: 2015
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 10 Septiembre 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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
- Discuss the relevance and benefits of including games in our classes for IGCSE and AS Literature

- Explore ways of adapting games for IGCSE and AS literature classes

- Share tips to maxime time when preparing games

- Provide IGCSE and AS literature teachers with useful tools to enhance students’ production

- Present games that have been used to enhance students’ production
- Motivating and fun activities that can be used with students when preparing IGCSE and AS Literature

- Adaptation of different games for specific literary purposes: board games on smart boards, flashcards and trivia
- Discussion of the benefits of including games in our classes

- Presentation of different engaging activities that have been used and can be used with the material included in the syllabus for IGCSE and AS Literature

- Participants will share experiences and suggest ways of adapting what has been presented for their own classes
- IGCSE and AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

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